My career started by earning M.Sc. in Medicinal Chemistry followed by Ph.D. in Pharmacology, after graduating from the School of Pharmacy of the University of Patras in my home country Greece. Its major turning point was in 2004, when I joined the lab of Dr. Walter Koch at Thomas Jefferson University, a former postdoctoral fellow of Nobel laureate Professor Robert Lefkowitz`s. After a successful 5-year-long postdoctoral tenure in Wally`s lab, I moved on to an independent faculty position at Nova Southeastern University in 2009. Since then, I have had several successes, awards and honors, most prominent among which my elections as Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) with its Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS) and as Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC), as well as a 5-year Scientist Development Grant award from the American Heart Association (AHA). Importantly, I was awarded, in 2021, my first R01 grant from the NIH on the “trans-omic analysis of epicardial adipose tissue in atrial fibrillation” (NHLBI), in collaboration with Dr. Jeffrey Goldberger at Univ. of Miami, FL, USA. I have been an AHA post-doctoral research fellow for a total of three years in the past, and, in fact, my postdoctoral fellowship application with AHA in 2007 got an unusual 1-year extension based on its exceptionally high score. I have also been a finalist for the AHA-sponsored Melvin L. Marcus Young Investigator Award in Basic Cardiovascular Sciences, and for the Cardiovascular Research Award of the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). In addition, I was recently awarded a patent (US Patent No. 10,172,907, issued on 1/8/2019) on “Methods and Compositions for Therapeutic Modulation of Aldosterone Levels In Heart Disease”, and currently have two more research patents under regulatory review. I also serve as senior editor of several prestigious peer-reviewed and PubMed-indexed journals, including “Scientific Reports” published by Nature Publishing Group, “Pharmacology Research & Perspectives” of the British Pharmacological Society, and “International Journal of Molecular Sciences” published by MDPI. I have edited one textbook published by the esteemed “Springer Nature” company and authored chapters in several books published by the Elsevier publishing company. I also serve as a regular grant reviewer for the American Heart Association and for the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), and have served as an ad hoc reviewer for certain NIH`s special emphasis scientific review panels. Finally, I have published in various prestigious scientific journals, headlined by my lead author original research publication in the prestigious “Nature Medicine” in 2007 (for the full list of my >105 peer-reviewed publications, see UPubMedU) and my current h-index is 39 (~5,400 total citations, i10-index: 80) in Google Scholar (as of January 2025). Regarding my teaching service, my teaching always receives high remarks from students and fellow faculty alike, and, in fact, I was nominated for the 2020 NSU Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy`s Golden Apple Award for excellence in teaching! I currently serve as NSU Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy faculty at the Associate Professor level and mentor several PhD, PharmD, and DO students in cardiovascular research in my lab. I have supervised twenty postgraduate and undergraduate research students in the past, all of whom have completed their graduate (Pharm.D., D.O.) and bachelor’s degrees, respectively. Several of them went on to secure prestigious residencies and/or fellowships at renowned hospitals around the country, such as the Massachusetts General Hospital, Northwestern University Hospital, Jackson Memorial Hospital, and others. Finally, two of them have received the prestigious American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE)`s National “Gateway to Research” Scholarship Awards.