Dr. Stefan Stojkovic, PhD is a cardiology resident at the Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Main areas of scientific interest are mechanisms of atherosclerotic plaque destabilization and thrombus formation.
Dr. Stojkovic graduated at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, in 2012. After his graduation he enrolled in the PhD program “Vascular Biology”. For his PhD-thesis, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Johann Wojta, Dr. Stojkovic has received a grant from the Funds of the Austrian National Bank, and completed his PhD with distinction in 2016. For his research in this field, Dr. Stojkovic has received several grants and awards at national and international conferences. With the Exchange grant of the ESC Working group on Thrombosis, Dr. Stojkovic was able to spend a term abroad at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, under under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Agneta Siegbahn.
Interleukin-33 stimulates the release of procoagulant microvesicles from human monocytes and differentially increases tissue factor in human monocyte subsets