Konstantinos Poulas
Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Pharmacy, University of Patras
Konstantinos Poulas studied biology at the Athens University where he also completed his Ph.D. Since 2003, he has been faculty member of the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Patras. He has worked for 25 years in order to understand the structure and function of Acetylcholine Receptor(s) and its interaction with autoantibodies or monoclonal antibodies. He has studied the molecular structure of monoclonal antibodies and fragments of the acetylcholine receptor. For the last five years he has started a totally different research project, studying the effects of vaping at molecular, cellular and histological level. It is the last ten years that he is working with a new scientific area, called ELECTROCEUTICALS. He is studying the effect of Wireless Microcurrent Stimulation (WMCS) technology and Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields (PEMF) technology on wound healing, burns and pain. For the last year he is working with COVID-19 pathophysiology. His team has identified a very important epitope on SPIKE protein, the so-called “cholinergic epitope” and is developing anti-COVID-19 therapies based on this interaction, while he is also following the importance of TLR-7 receptors as potential drug targets for the same disease. He has more than 100 publications in peer reviewed journals and he is also having a number of patents.