Professor Konstantinos Stellos

Professor Konstantinos Stellos, MD, FAHA, FESC, is Director of the VI. Department of Medicine at University Medical Center Mannheim and Full Professor of Internal Medicine at Heidelberg University, Germany. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, as well as Vascular Medicine. He served as Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Newcastle University and Honorary Consultant at Freeman Hospital, and led Cardiovascular Research at Heidelberg University’s European Center for Angioscience. His research focuses on vascular biology and medicine, RNA biology and therapeutics, innate immunity and inflammation, and cardiovascular precision medicine, supported by an ERC and European funding. He received the ESC Outstanding Achievement Award in 2020, serves as Associate Editor of Cardiovascular Research and on the Editorial Board of the European Heart Journal, and is a member of the Leadership Committee of the AHA Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine.