Speaker: Nikolaos Skartsis
Location: Biomedical Sciences Building, University of Galway
Date: Tuesday, 3rd June 2025
CÚRAM is pleased to announce a seminar with Dr. Nikolaos Skartsis, an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Senior Associate Consultant in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN, USA. He is a graduate of the University of Patras Medical School in Greece and has trained and worked at Harvard Medical School, Albert Einstein Medical Center, and University of California San Francisco.
The focus of his research is to elucidate the distinct molecular and cellular mechanisms that promote the survival and function of regulatory T cells (Tregs) and conventional T cells (Tconvs) within inflammatory environments. Understanding the mechanisms of T cell survival and function at their site of action will help design highly efficacious T-cell based therapies in transplantation and autoimmune diseases. He has invented a novel method of ex-vivo regulatory T cell expansion with the potential help promote cellular therapies in transplantation and autoimmune diseases and/or help therapeutic approaches that aim to boost native regulatory T cells to dampen inflammation in various inflammatory mediated diseases.
This seminar is hosted by Matt Griffin.
