Nikos Papadopoulos is a world leading expert in allergy and asthma, focusing on the role of infection and its interaction with atopy, as keystone events of allergy pathophysiology as well as targets for treatment. In the course of this career, he has identified some of the key mechanisms leading from common viral exposures to asthma exacerbations and allergy persistence. He is Professor and Head of the Allergy Department, 2 nd Pediatric Clinic, University of Athens; also Honorary Professor at the University of Manchester and at OPRI, Singapore. He has supervised more than 30 PhDs, organized over 200 educational events and has trained doctors in the clinic and researchers in the lab. He is an invited speaker at international events more than 30 times a year. He has participated and led several high-impact EU research projects from FP5 all the way to Horizon Europe (2022).
He has actively served many international societies, most notably EAACI (President 2013-2015), the Respiratory Effectiveness Group (REG, President 2018- 2020) and currently Board Member of WAO. He has received several international awards, among other, the EAACI Clemens von Pirquet Award (2019), the PhARF award (2010), the Klosterfrau International Award (2003) and the ERS Annual Award for Pediatric Respiratory Research in Europe (2004). He has published over 600 papers, receiving 50000 citations and an h-index of >100 (Google Scholar).
Έχει δημοσιεύσει περισσότερες από 600 εργασίες, λαμβάνοντας > 70.000 αναφορές και δείκτη h > 119 (Google Scholar). Αυτό το διάστημα διερευνά τον ρόλο των αναπνευστικών ιών στο άσθμα, δοκιμάζει νέες παρεμβάσεις στην αλλεργία στο γάλα και τους ξηρούς καρπούς, αξιολογεί πιθανές παρεμβάσεις σχετικά με τη ρύπανση του αέρα σε εσωτερικούς χώρους σχολείων, ενώ ηγείται της Δεξαμενής Σκέψης PeARL (Παιδιατρικό Άσθμα στην Πραγματική Ζωή), που στοχεύει στη βελτιστοποίηση της διαχείρισης του παιδιατρικού άσθματος.
Check his research: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Papadopoulos+NG&sort=date