Stefania Koutsilieri

My name is Stefania Koutsilieri and I am a graduate of the Pharmacy School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where I completed my undergraduate and Master’s thesis in Pharmacology under the supervision of Professor Andreas Papapetropoulos. Since September 2018,

I have been awarded a scholarship by the Onassis Foundation for my studies in prostate cancer as a PhD candidate at the Pharmacy School of the University of Patras in the Laboratory of Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Therapy, under the supervision of Professor George Patrinos.

Over the past two years, I have been working on the creation of a database that gathers valuable pharmacogenomics information, both published by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and by the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC).

The aim of our project is to highlight both the similarities and discrepancies found in the proposed therapeutic recommendations based on the results of genetic testing, with a view to harmonizing pharmacogenomics information. This harmonization is considered to be a key step in the implementation of Pharmacogenomics in clinical practice so that clinicians and patients can benefit from Personalized Medicine.