Dr. Konstantinos S. Mylonas currently serves as a Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center whilst completing his grant-supported PhD in Cardiovascular Stem Cell Genetics at Athens Medical School. Prior experience includes residency training in General and Transplant Surgery at Athens Medical School, a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Thoracic and General Pediatric Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, PDCP in Applied Biostatistics at Harvard University, and multiple NGO leadership positions.
The aortic expression pattern of mechanosensitive stem cell genes is spatially deranged by western-type diet but can be regulated with colchicine-based anti-inflammatory treatment