Antigone Lazou is a Professor of Physiology at the School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2003–present) and a Visiting Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, UK (2018–present). She received her Diploma in Biology from Aristotle University of  Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1980 and her Doctorate in Physiology at the Laboratory of Animal Physiology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1984. Her research primarily focuses on molecular mechanisms underlying cardiac dysfunction in disease, particularly myocardial ischemia and the development of cardiac hypertrophy and failure.