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Eleftheria Zeggini
Helmholtz Munich
© Jan Roeder

Membership Number:6854
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Elected:2024
Main Country of Residence:GERMANY
Homepage(s):https://www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/itg
ORCID:0000-0003-4238-659X
Twitter:@EleZeggini
Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleftheria-zeggini-9b140864/


Present and Previous Positions

  • Since 2020 TUM Liesel Beckmann Distinguished Professor (W3), TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University Munich and Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Germany
  • Since 2018 Director, Institute of Translational Genomics, Helmholtz Munich, Germany
  • 2008 - 2018 Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
  • 2006 - 2008 Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (WTCHG), University of Oxford, UK
  • 2004 - 2006 WTCHG, Post Doctoral Research Associate in Statistical Genetics, University of Oxford, UK
  • 2003 - 2004 Post Doctoral Research Associate, Centre for Integrated Genomic and Medical Research, University of Manchester, UK

Fields of Scholarship
  • Cardiometabolic diseases
  • Translational genomics
  • Type 2 diabetes
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Genetics and genomics of complex diseases
  • Precision medicine
  • Digital health
  • Human genetics

Honours and Awards
  • 2022 Elected Greek National Representative to the EMBL Council
  • 2021 Elected ELLIS Fellow, ELLIS unit Munich, Germany
  • 2021 Elected Member of EMBO
  • 2020 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK
  • 2020 Argo Award for Distinguished Greeks Abroad
  • 2019 Research Excellence Award, Greece
  • 2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
  • 2018 Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Cambridge
  • 2018 Honorary Professor, University of Bristol
  • 2017 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
  • 2017 World Economic Forum Young Scientist Award
  • 2017 Wellcome Genome Campus Award for Supporting Women in Science
  • 2015 50 Movers and Shakers in Biobusiness 2015, UK
  • 2014 Suffrage Science Heirloom Award, UK
  • 2013 Honorary Professor, University of Leicester, UK
  • 2011 ERC Starting Grant “Sequencing population isolates to find complex trait loci”
  • 2008 European Association for the Study of Diabetes Rising Star Award
  • 2007 University of Oxford Medical Division Research Prize
  • 2003 European League Against Rheumatism Young Investigator Award
  • 2002 British Society of Rheumatology Young Investigator Award for excellence


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