Current Fundings
- Programme: Action 1.i.1b: Strengthening of open research infrastructures of regional character
- Title: High-resolution research infrastructure for supporting innovation in Epirus
- Funding Source: Region of Epirus, Managing Authority of the Epirus Programme 2021–2027
- Contract Number:
- Researchers: Savvas Christoforidis, Frank Fackelmayer, Carol Murphy, Christos Gkogkas, Maria Georgiadou, Sofia Be
- Role: PI for BRI-FORTH
- Budget: €843,200
- Duration: 2026-2030
- Programme: 3rd Call for the support of Faculty Members and Researchers
- Title: Crosstalk between endocytosis, signalling and exocytosis in vascular morphogenesis
- Funding Source: Ministry of Development and Investments, General Secretariat for Research and Innovation, Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI)
- Contract Number: 25080
- Researchers: Savvas Christoforidis (PI), Dimitrios Beis (member)
- Role: PI
- Budget: € 299,981
- Duration: 2025-2029
- Programme: 5th Call for HFRI PhD Fellowships
- Title: Secretory vesicles involved in vascular function: identification of protein cargo and study of secretion mechanisms
- Funding Source: Ministry of Development and Investments, General Secretariat for Research and Innovation, Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI)
- Contract Number: 20882
- Researchers: Panagiotis Lentzaris (PhD candidate), Savvas Christoforidis (PI)
- Role: PI
- Budget: € 32,400
- Duration: 2024-2027
- Programme: Flagship Actions in interdisciplinary scientific areas with a particular emphasis on links to the productive sector
- Title: National research network for elucidating the genetic basis of neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s), identifying reliable biomarkers, and developing innovative computational technologies and therapeutic strategies based on precision me
- Funding Source: Ministry of Development and Investments
- Contract Number: AEDR-0535850
- Researchers: Christos Gkogkas, Carol Murphy, Dimitris Fotiadis, Savvas Christoforidis
- Role: Member in the national network, PI for the team of BRI-FORTH
- Budget: network budget: €4,915,000; budget allocated to the Christoforidis group: €100,000
- Duration: 2023-2026
- Programme: Funding for Applied Research
- Title: Thrombosis and inflammation: Development of new diagnostic and therapeutic products focusing on the secretome of endothelial cells
- Funding Source: OFET group
- Contract Number:
- Researchers: Panagiotis Lentzaris (PhD student), Savvas Christoforidis
- Role: PI
- Budget: € 93,000
- Duration: 2023-2026
Past Fundings
- Programme: Research grants for Academic Staff and Researchers
- Title: Drugging Protein-Membrane Interfaces: A Novel Approach for Targeted Drug Design
- Funding Source: Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI)
- Contract Number:
- Researchers: S. Christoforidis
- Role: Participant
- Budget: € 26,339 (for Christoforidis’ team)
- Duration: 2020-2023
- Programme: Cooperation/Large Scale Cooperative Projects
- Title: Mechanisms of Induced Pluripotency: From Transcriptional Noise to Stem Cell Therapies. Acronym: NoisePlus
- Funding Source: National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) 2007-2013, General secretary of Research and Technology, Ministry of Education
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Participant: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 75.000 for Christoforidis’s team
- Duration: 2012-2015
- Programme: Research Support
- Title: Molecular mechanisms of the anti-thrombotic function of CD39
- Funding Source: Research committee, University of Ioannina
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Principal investigator: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 5,870
- Duration: 2002-2003
- Programme: EMBO Young Investigator program
- Title: The role of endocytosis and secretion in the antithrombotic function of Endothelial Cells
- Funding Source: EMBO
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Principal investigator: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 55,000
- Duration: 2002-2005
- Programme: Hraklitos II
- Title: The role of VEGFR2 compartmentalization in VEGF signalling
- Funding Source: Greek Ministry of Education
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Scientific responsible: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 45,000
- Duration: 2010-2012
- Programme: Cooperation/Large Scale Cooperative Projects
- Title: PIK3CA Oncogenic Mutations in Breast and Colon Cancers: Development of Targeted Anticancer Drugs and Diagnostics. Acronym: POM
- Funding Source: National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) 2007-2013 General secretary of Research and Technology, Ministry of Education
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Participant: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 63.000 for Christoforidis’s team
- Duration: 2011-2015
- Programme: New Knowledge
- Title: Thrombosis and Inflammation: The diagnostic and therapeutic significance of the secretory mechanism of endothelial cells
- Funding Source: Operational Programme, Periphery of Epirus
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Scientific responsible: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 150,000
- Duration: 2013-2015
- Programme: KRIPIS
- Title: Basic mechanisms of differentiation of stem cells
- Funding Source: General secretary of Research and Technology, Ministry of Education
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Participant: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 45,000 for Christoforidis’s team
- Duration: 2013-2015
- Programme: Cross-Border Cooperation within the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI)
- Title: Mobility, exchanges, training and professionalism of young experts from the Mediterranean basin in the field of safety evaluation and risk assessment of botanicals (acronym: BRAMA)
- Funding Source: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Participant: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 15.000 for Christoforidis’s team
- Duration: 2012-2015
- Programme: Directorate of Scholarships (IKY), grant for PhD study
- Title: Study of spatiotemporal coordination of RabGTPases in regulated exocytosis in endothelial cells
- Funding Source: Directorate of Scholarships (IKY)
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: PhD student: Despoina Gkeka Scientific responsible: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 12,240
- Duration: 2017-2018
- Programme: Reinforcement of Postdoctoral Researchers - 2nd Cycle
- Title: Regulation of stem cell differentiation via endocytosis
- Funding Source: State Scholarships Foundation (ΙΚΥ)
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Post-doctoral fellow: Despoina Gkeka Scientific responsible for the fellow: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 19,605.00
- Duration: 2019-2021
- Programme: Reinforcement of Postdoctoral Researchers - 2nd Cycle
- Title: Study of the molecular mechanism of galectin-1 entry into Weibel Palade bodies and exocytosis, in endothelial cells
- Funding Source: State Scholarships Foundation (ΙΚΥ)
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Post-doctoral fellow: Evangelia Goula. Scientific responsible for the fellow: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 19,605.00
- Duration: 2019-2021
- Programme: National Roadmap for Research Infrastructures
- Title: BioImaging-GR: The Greek Research Infrastructure for the Imaging and Monitoring of Fundamental Biological Processes
- Funding Source: Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, NSRF 2014-2020
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Scientific responsible for the Ioannina team: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 204.500 Euro (for the infrastructure of Ioannina)
- Duration: 2018-2022
- Programme: Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Title: Innovative development of new anticancer drugs with a therapeutic target for the oncoprotein MYC
- Funding Source: Ministry of Finance, NSRF 2014-2020
- Contract Number:
- Researchers: S. Christoforidis
- Role: Participant
- Budget: € 42.500 (for Christoforidis’ team)
- Duration: 2018-2022
- Programme: Marie Curie Individual Return grant/Training and Mobility of Researchers
- Title: Endothelial cell defense against platelet aggregation
- Funding Source: European Union
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Principal investigator: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 51,600
- Duration: 2000-2001
- Programme: ARCHERS-FORTH, Stavros Niarchos Foundation
- Title: Interconnections between metabolism and endocytosis: elucidation of the role of a new interaction between Rab5 and the cytoplasmic thiolase ACAT2
- Funding Source: Stavros Niarchos Foundation
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: PhD student: Katerina Galanopoulou Scientific responsible: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 11,313
- Duration: 2019-2020
- Programme: EU Horizon-MSCA-2022-PF, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship,Post-doctoral fellow: Eftychia Vasili, Budget 169.326€ (co-Principal Investigators: Savvas Christoforidis and Nektarios Tavernarakis)
- Title: Amyloid-β clearance in Alzheimer's disease: Unravelling the role of endocytic pathways of endothelial cells
- Funding Source: EU Horizon Europe
- Contract Number: 101108592
- Researchers: Eftychia Vasili, Nektarios Tavernarakis, Vasiliki Machairaki, Savvas Christoforidis
- Role: co-PI
- Budget: € 169.326
- Duration: 2023-2025
- Programme: ΕDΒΜ34, "Support of researchers with emphasis on young researchers"
- Title: Mechanisms of Differentiation of Stem Cells into Endothelial Cells
- Funding Source: Ministry of Finance, NSRF 2014-2020
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Scientific responsible: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 72,100
- Duration: 2018-2020
- Programme: Excellence - IKY Siemens
- Title: Coordination between metabolism, endocytosis and signalling: The role of the interaction between the metabolic enzyme ACAT2 and the GTPase Rab5
- Funding Source: IKY-Siemens
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Scientific responsible: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 49,300
- Duration: 2015-2017
- Programme: GSRT, Siemens Grant
- Title: Biology - Biophotonics - Health: "Modern Technological Approaches and Applications in the Field of Biology, Biophotonics and Health"
- Funding Source: GSRT
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Participant: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 25,704 for Christoforidis’s team
- Duration: 2015-2017
- Programme: Excellence (Aristeia)
- Title: Endocytosis, regulated secretion, and signalling in endothelial cells: Coordination, molecular mechanisms and implications in blood vessel diseases. Acronym: SecrEndo
- Funding Source: General secretary of Research and Technology, Ministry of Education
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Scientific responsible: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 177,000
- Duration: 2014-2015
- Programme: FP6 Integrated Project οf EU
- Title: Tracking the Endocytic Routes of Polypeptide Growth Factor Receptor Complexes and their Modulatory Role on Signalling (Acronym: EndoTrack)
- Funding Source: EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
- Contract Number: LSHG-CT-2006-019050
- Researchers:
- Role: Participant: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 234,121 for Christoforidis’s team
- Duration: 2006-2010
- Programme: PENED
- Title: Inter-relationships between molecular mechanisms of signal transduction, cytoskeleton and secretion in thrombosis and inflammation
- Funding Source: General secretary of Research and Technology, Ministry of Education
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Participant: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 66,360 for Christoforidis’s team
- Duration: 2006-2009
- Programme: Pythagoras II
- Title: The role of lipid rafts and caveolae in thrombosis and angiogenesis
- Funding Source: General secretary of Research and Technology, Ministry of Education
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Participant: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 16,667 for Christoforidis’s team
- Duration: 2005-2008
- Programme: Human Networks
- Title: Applications of photonic microscopy in biomedical research and diagnosis
- Funding Source: General secretary of Research and Technology, Ministry of Education
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Participant: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 3,715 for Christoforidis’s team
- Duration: 2004-2005
- Programme: PENED 2001
- Title: Signal transduction and intracellular membrane trafficking in endothelial cell
- Funding Source: General secretary of Research and Technology, Ministry of Education
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Participant: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 44,021 for Christoforidis’s team
- Duration: 2002-2005
- Programme: FP6 Integrated Project οf EU
- Title: Pulmonary Hypertension: Functional Genomics and Therapy of Lung Vascular Remodelling (Acronym: Pulmotension)
- Funding Source: EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: Senior investigator and Co-applicant: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 110,000 for Christoforidis’s team
- Duration: 2006-2010
- Programme: Directorate of Scholarships (IKY), grant for the PhD study
- Title: Spatiotemporal coordination and mechanisms of communication between endocytosis and regulated exocytosis upon signalling by VEGFR2
- Funding Source: Directorate of Scholarships (IKY)
- Contract Number:
- Researchers:
- Role: PhD student: Evangelia Goula Scientific responsible: Christoforidis
- Budget: € 12,240
- Duration: 2017-2018
