Dr. Leonidas Kandilogiannakis is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Laboratory of Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece. In 2005, he received his diploma in Chemical Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, with specialization in Materials Science & Technology and thesis on “Development of Low Temperature Protective Aluminum Coatings with the method of Chemical Vapor Deposition in Fluidized Bed Reactor” ; in 2012 he received a MSc degree in Food Biotechnology from the Dept. of Chemistry, University of Patras, University of Ioannina, Greece and School of Life Sciences, Ulster University, N. Ireland, UK and thesis on “Production of Unsalted Hard Type Cheese using Thermally Dried Starter Cultures”. From 2014 to 2017, he worked as Quality Control Manager in the Laboratory of Hygiene & Environmental Protection, Dept. of Medicine, DUTH. In 2022 he completed his PhD, entitled “Stem Cells in the development of Bioengineering Models for the study of Therapeutic Agents in the Treatment of Intestinal Inflammation”, aiming at applying bioengineered methods to the study of Crohn’s disease. Since 2018, he is a member of International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR). Recently, in 2020, he has been accepted in the MSc program in Biomedical Engineering, organized by University of Crete (UOC), Technical University of Crete (TUC) and the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH).
Dr. Kandilogiannakis current research interests include the development of bioengineering models, utilized in the investigation of possible new treatments of intestinal inflammation and fibrosis, and in the elucidation of the etiopathogenetic mechanisms that lie on the background of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Therefore, his focus is on stem cell culturing and differentiating, and the development of intestinal organoids as novel inflammation and fibrosis in vitro and ex vivo models. He also focuses on the study of biomaterials used in stem cell encapsulation and their advantages that may offer to regenerative medicine. He has published or been a co-author in 10 scientific articles (h-index: 3) and participated in several scientific abstracts in conferences.
An extended list of his publications can be found at https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=37069474500 (Scopus)