Antigoni Triantafyllopoulo

Dr. Antigoni Triantafyllopoulou is a professor of Innate Immunity in Rheumatic Diseases at the Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin and leads a group on the role of innate cells in chronic inflammation at the German Rheumatology Research Center (DRFZ) in Berlin. She obtained a medical degree and a Ph.D. from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, followed by residency/fellowship training in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center (Bronx, New York) and at the Hospital for Special Surgery/Weil Medical College of Cornell University (Manhattan, New York). In New York, she started working in macrophages and lupus nephritis in the Lab of Lionel Ivashkiv (HSS). Following her training she moved to the Center of Chronic Immunodeficiency in Freiburg, Germany, as a physician scientist and project leader (Labs of Philipp Henneke and Reinhard Voll), where with support from a Marie Curie Re-Integration Grant, she uncovered the role of replication stress and DDR signaling in the differentiation of polyploid macrophages in granulomas. She later moved to Berlin where she set up her Lab at the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology and the German Rheumatology Research Center, a Leibniz Institute, with support from an ERC starting grant. Her current work focuses on the pathways that control the crosstalk of Innate lymphoid cells and Macrophages with tissue cells at homeostasis, in autoimmunity and in granulomatous diseases, in solid organs as well as at mucosal barriers.