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Andriana Margariti

Andriana Margariti

Cardiology
London, England, United Kingdom

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Dr Margariti has developed significant expertise in stem cell biology, with particular emphasis on cell reprogramming, chromatin remodelling, cell signalling and endothelial cell biology. Her postdoctoral training was in the Cardiovascular Division of the BHF Centre of Excellence at King’s College London (KCL). In 2013 she has been appointed as a Lecturer in the Centre of Experimental Medicine (CEM) in Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017. Dr Margariti is working in the CEM which provides a vibrant and growing research centre focused on vascular biology. The Centre has now moved into a purpose-designed £32M Research building (~4,742m2) partly funded by a Wellcome Trust-Wolfson Capital Award. Dr Margariti has published a number of high-quality papers, and the impact of her research has been recognised by several prestigious awards, including the PAPANIKOLAOU Prize from the Hellenic Medical Society for significant contribution to medical research and the prize for outstanding performance and scientific research awarded by the KCL.

Dr Margariti has been awarded a BBSRC new Investigator Award and Grants from BHF to study the underlying mechanisms of direct reprogramming and endothelial cells in the context of vascular disease and diabetes. She has also established collaborations with two of the leading cell reprogramming laboratories in the world. Prof Deepak Srivastava in University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), who is internationally renowned for his studies in cell reprogramming, and Prof George Daley, the Director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Children’s Hospital Boston in Harvard Medical School, whose group are world leaders in the studies in development and cellular reprogramming.
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