Panagiota Anyfanti, MD, MSc, PhD; Postdoctoral researcher, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; 2nd Medical Department, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece. She is a European Society of Hypertension (ESH) Hypertension Specialist and Registrar in Internal Medicine in Hippokration Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece. Her research interests focus on the study of micro- and macrovascular alterations, their clinical implications and the investigation of novel vascular biomarkers in populations with high cardiovascular risk, including hypertension, diabetes and inflammatory-mediated immune diseases. She is running the project “Evaluation of novel markers of endothelial dysfunction and thrombotic microenvironment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: association with markers of subclinical inflammation and cardiovascular damage (MIS 5047870), co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Social Fund- ESF) through the Operational Programme “Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning 2014-2020”.