Dr. Theodoros Kapellos
Curriculum Vitae
Theodore S.
Kapellos
DPhil
d.o.b. January 8th, 1988
University Education
2012 – 2016
2010 – 2011
2005 – 2010
DPhil, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK
Master, Imperial College of London, UK
Bachelor, Department of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Scientific Career
2024 -
2022 -
2022 -
2021 - 2022
2017 – 2021
2010
Group leader, “Immunoregulation in obstructive airway diseases” Institute of Experimental Pneumology,
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich clinics, Germany
Principal Investigator at the German Center for Lung Research
Group leader – “Immunoregulation in obstructive airway diseases” Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich,
Germany
Senior researcher, Comprehensive Pneumology Center at Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Germany
Postdoctoral researcher, Limes institute, University of Bonn, Germany
In the L ab of Prof. Vily Panoutsakopoulou
Intern, Department of Evangelismos Public Hospital of Athens, Greece
Awards and Honors
2025
2023
2022
2017
2016
2016
2015
2012
Recognition of Early Academic Achievement Award (REAAch) at the American Thoracic Society International CongressEuropean Respiratory Society short-term fellowship to transfer metagenomics analysis skills from Prof. Hansbro group in Sydney, Australia
Geoffrey Laurant annual award for excellent oral presentation awarded at the Lung Science Congress
Full Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK
Medical Research Council Supplementary Fund to support the submission of DPhil project-related publication
Edward P. Abraham trust continuation fund Oxford UK
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK
DPhil studentship funded awarded by the Edward P. Abraham Trust and medical Research Council UK
Eight most important Publications
Kapellos TS, Conlon TM, Yildirim AÖ, Lehmann M. (2023). The impact of the immune system on lung injury and regeneration in COPD. European Respiratory Journal. 62 (4): 2300589
Sikkema L, Ramírez-Suástegui C, Strobl DC, Gillett TE, Zappia L, Madissoon E, Markov NS, Zaragosi LE, Ji Y, Ansari M, Arguel MJ, Apperloo L, Banchero M, Bécavin C, Berg M, Chichelnitskiy E, Chung MI, Collin A, Gay ACA, …, Kapellos TS, … and Theis FJ. (2023). An integrated cell atlas of the lung in health and disease. Nature Medicine. 29 (6): 1563-1577
Kapellos TS*, Baßler K*, Fujii W*, Nalkurthi C, Schaar AC, Bonaguro L, Pecht T, Galvao I, Agrawal S, Saglam A, Dudkin E, Frishberg A, de Domenico E, Horne A, Donovan C, Kim RY, Gallego-Ortega D, …, and Schultze JL. (2023). Systemic alterations in neutrophils and their precursors in early-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Cell Reports. 42 (6): 112525
Baßler K*, Fujii W*, Kapellos TS*, Dudkin E*, Reusch N*, Horne A, Reiz B, Luecken MD, Osei-Sarpong C, Warnat-Herresthal S, Bonaguro L, Schulte-Schrepping J, Wagner, A, Guenther P, Pizarro C, Schreiber T, Knoll R, Holsten L, Kroeger Charlotte, …, and Schultze JL. (2022). Alveolar macrophages in early-stage COPD show functional deviations with properties of impaired immune activation. Frontiers in Immunology. 13: 917232
Fujii W*, Kapellos TS *, Baßler K*, Ulas T, Händler K, Holsten L, Hinkley E, Pizarro C, Thiele C, Aschenbrenner AC, Skowasch D and Schultze JL. (2021). Alveolar macrophage transcriptomic profiling in COPD shows major lipid metabolism changes. European Respiratory Journal Open Research. 7 (3)
Schulte-Schrepping J, Reusch N, Paclik D, Baßler K, Schlickeiser S, Zhang B, Krämer B, Krammer T, Brumhard S, Bonaguro L, De Domenico E, Wendisch D, Grasshoff M, Kapellos TS, Beckstette M, Pecht T, Saglam A, Dietrich O, Mei HE, …, and the Deutsche COVID-19 OMICS Initiative (DeCOI). (2020). Severe COVID-19 Is Marked by a Dysregulated Myeloid Cell Compartment. Cell. 182 (6): 1419-1440
Aschenbrenner AC*, Mouktaroudi M*, Krämer B*, Antonakos N*, Oestreich M*, Gkizeli K*, Nuesch-Germano M*, Saridaki M*, Bonaguro L*, Reusch N*, Baßler K*, Doulou S*, Knoll R*, Pecht T*, Kapellos TS*, Rovina N*, Kröger C*, Herbert M*, Holsten L*, …, and the German COVID-19 Omics Initiative (DeCOI). (2021). Disease severity-specific neutrophil signatures in blood transcriptomes stratify COVID-19 patients. Genome Medicine. 13 (1): 7
Tuit S*, Salvagno C*, Kapellos TS *, Hau CS, Seep L, Oestreich M, Klee K, de Visser KE, Ulas T and Schultze JL. (2019). Transcriptional Signature Derived from Murine Tumor-Associated Macrophages Correlates with Poor Outcome in Breast Cancer Patients. Cell Reports. 29 (5): 1221- 1235
