Dr Stylianou received his MD from the Medical School of the University of Crete (UoC) in 1994 and his PhD from the Division of Nephrology at the University of Crete in 2010. Dr Stylianou has worked in general internal medicine since 1994 and in clinical nephrology since 1999. He is Associate Professor of Nephrology at the Medical School of the University of Crete and has served as Director of the Nephrology Department at Heraklion University Hospital since 2020. He worked as a nephrologist at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Queen Margaret Hospital in Scotland in 2004\u20132005.His current research focuses on the genetic basis of familial kidney disease and chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology. His work also includes the study of kidney biopsies from patients with glomerulonephritis and inherited kidney diseases using electron microscopy, genomic analysis and proteomic analysis. Cardiorenal syndrome is another major clinical interest. His PhD thesis examined activation of the PI3K\/AKT\/mTOR pathway in lupus nephritis and the role of mTOR inhibitors. Dr Stylianou is responsible for teaching medical students during both the preclinical and clinical stages of the UoC medical curriculum. He also trains nephrology registrars and postgraduate students at universities across Greece. In addition, he teaches most nephrology topics in the UoC International Programme in Medicine.He serves as a reviewer for numerous international journals and as an editor for the Journal of Clinical Medicine and Frontiers in Physiology. He was a member of the Educational Committee of the Hellenic Society of Nephrology (ENE) for nine years and is currently an elected member of its Board.He has served as an expert evaluator for the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) and Kidney Research UK.\u00a0Dr Stylianou has organised four nephrology conferences in Greece, including the 24th National Congress of Nephrology and the European Vasculitis Society Educational Congress in 2023. He has published 120 papers in international journals, received 3,600 citations and has an h-index of 32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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