CURRICULUM VITAE  

NAME: ANDREAS AGATHANGELIDIS 

COMMUNICATION: Telephone no 6970253068, email aagathangelidis@gmail.com 

STUDIES/EDUCATION 

2000-2006 Bachelor and Integrated Master, Department of Biological Applications and Technologies, Ioannina, Greece 

2008-2012 PhD, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 

2012-2016 Post-doc Research, Laboratory of B-cell Neoplasia, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy 

2016-2018 Post-doc Research, Institute of Applied Bioscience, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece 

2019-2020 Principal Investigator, Institute of Applied Bioscience, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece 

2021          Associate Professor, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens 

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 

• Project Leader/Coordinator for the collection and analysis of immunogenetic data, European Research Initiative in CLL (ERIC) (2018-today) (http://www.ericll.org/projects/). 
• Responsible for managing the largest immunogenetic database worldwide (IMGT/CLL-DB) (2011-today) (https://www.imgt.org/CLLDBInterface/query). 

• Quality assessor in the field of production and analysis of immunogenic data, UK NEQAS (2020). 

 

SCIENTIFIC WORK 

55 Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals 

Citations: 2543 (1966 since 2016) | h-index: 23 (21 since 2016) | i10-index: 39 (37 since 2016) 

10 Oral presentations in international scientific congresses 

19 Poster presentations in scientific congresses 

 

TEACHING/EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE 

• Master’s course “Applications of Biology” of the School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Title: “Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia” (2019-2020). 

• Undergraduate courses “Cancer Biology” and “The world of RNA” at the Department of Biological Applications and Technologies, University of Ioannina (2019-2020). 
•  Course “Genetic Approach to Diseases-Molecular Diagnostics” of the Master’s course “Biological Applications in Medicine” of the Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Title: “Principles of diagnostic approaches to genetic diseases. New technologies towards the dissection of genetic information: the example of Next Generation Sequencing» (2020-2021). 
•  Course “Genetic Approach to Diseases-Molecular Diagnostics” of the Master’s course “Biological Applications in Medicine” of the Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Title: “Next Generation Sequencing» (2020-2021). 

 

RESEARCH FUNDING 

National programs 

• CLLon: Immunogenetic and functional analysis of the B-cell receptor in monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis and chronic lymphocytic leukemia: implications for disease ontogeny 
• Large-scale genomic analysis in samples of healthy individuals with monoclonal B lymphocytosis (MBL) and patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) for the detection of oncogenic lesions 
• Toward Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL): dissecting the role of genetic lesions in Monoclonal B cell Lymphocytosis (MBL) through a genome-wide sequencing approach 
• Harnessing tumour microenvironment cross talk to treat mature B cell tumours 

• CEITEC, open access project – Thorough screening of normal individuals for the presence of CLL stereotypes using NGS 
• Harnessing tumour cell/microenvironment cross talk to treat mature B-cell tumours 
• Immunogenetic analysis of healthy individuals with/without monoclonal B lymphocytosis: ontogenetic extensions for chronic lymphocytic leukemia 
• P63 – A novel player underlying clinical aggressiveness in chronic lymphocytic leukemia regulated by B cell receptor signaling and linked to NF-κB activation 

EU-funded programs 

• COSMIC, Combatting Disorders of Adaptive Immunity with Systems Medicine 
• KRIPIS II ODYSSEUS, Intelligent and Automated Systems for the Design, Simulation, and Development of Integrated Products and Processes 
• AEGLE, An Analytics Framework for Integrated and Personalized Healthcare Services in Europe