Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos, MD, PhD
Nikolaos Papadopoulos, MD, PhD
Professor and Head, Pediatric Allergy Department
University of Athens
Athens, Greece
Nikolaos (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, 2nd Pediatric Clinic, University of Athens; also Honorary Professor at the University of Manchester and at OPRI, Singapore.
He has supervised more than 20 PhDs, organized over 100 educational events and has trained doctors in the clinic and researchers in the lab. He is 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 500 papers, receiving more than 50000 citations and an h-index of >100 (Google Scholar).
He is Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Allergy and Associate Editor of Clinical & Translational Allergy.
Currently he is exploring the role of the respiratory virome in asthma, trialling new interventions in milk and nut allergy, evaluating potential interventions against indoor air pollution at schools, while he is leading PeARL (Pediatric Asthma in Real-Life), a think tank that aims to optimise pediatric asthma management.
