Konstantinos Drosatos

Konstantinos Drosatos

Professor in Pharmacology and Systems, Biology University of Cincinnati | President of the ARISTEiA Institute | General Secretary of the KOMVOS-NODE Greece

United States

Konstantinos Drosatos is the Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of the Department of Pharmacology and Systems Physiology at the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine. Moreover, he is the President of the ARISTEiA-Institute for the Advancement of Research and Education in Arts, Sciences and Technology in the USA and the General Secretary of the non-profit organization KOMVOS-NODE that has been established in Greece.
The research of his own lab focuses on signaling mechanisms that link cardiac stress in diabetes, sepsis and ischemia with altered myocardial and systemic fatty acid metabolism.
He is an elected Fellow of the Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Council of the American Heart Association, the recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award of the American Heart Association-Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Council, the recipient of the 2017 Early Research Investigator Award of the Medical School at Temple University, a Visiting Professor of the Center for Systems Biomedicine at the UCLA, a Visiting Professor of the Medical School in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and external faculty of the University of Crete Medical School.
He has founded and served as the president of two scientific networks of Greek biomedical scientists and physicians that live abroad: The Hellenic Bioscientific Association of the USA and the World Hellenic Biomedical Association. During his tenure as the president of these societies he organized national meetings and an annual international summer school for medical and biosciences students which has been attended by more than 400 undergraduate and graduate students in the last 12 years. He is also the co-founder and chair of the scientific board of the International Interdisciplinary School for Environmental Crisis that takes place in Greece.