Prof. Iordanis Mourouzis received his degree in Medicine from the University of Athens (2001) and his Ph.D. in “Thyroid hormone and cardioprotection” (2006, University of Athens). He is a trained cardiologist and is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmacology, Medical School, University of Athens. His research is focused on the role of the thyroid hormone in tissue repair (myocardium, neural tissue, pancreas, and sepsis), especially on endogenous mechanisms of repair/regeneration after myocardial injury. He is the scientific coordinator for NKUA in the European program “Regenerating the diabetic heart and kidney by using stress-specific thyroid hormone nanocarriers” (EURONANOMED2019-049/REASON, 2020-2023). Dr. Mourouzis has published more than 120 scientific papers in international, peer-reviewed journals. His work has received more than 3963 citations according to Google Scholar (h-index 39).