In 2015 Dr. Christina Dalla was awarded in Amsterdam with the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Fellowship for the team's work on psychotropic effects of aromatase inhibitors and the role of neuroestrogens in depression.
N. Kokras & Prof. Johar
A. Polissidis & Prof. Johar
2012 ECNP Seminar Awards
Group members Drs Alexia Polissidis & Nikolaos Kokras were awarded the 2012 European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Seminar Award
2008 L'Oreal-Unesco Award
Dr. Christina Dalla was awarded with the L'Oreal-Unesco award for young women researchers in Greece in 2008.
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Awards List
2016 Manuscript "Tau protein is essential for stress-induced brain pathology" (PNAS, 2016) was awarded by Janssen Portugal
2016 International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) awarded the International Travel Grant Award to Dr. N. Kokras
2016 Post-Doctoral Travel Award to Dr. N. Kokras from the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience for the presentation of "The therapeutic potential of trans-crocin-4: a preclinical pharmacological study in both sexes" at the 10th FENS Forum, Copenhagen
2016 State Scholarship foundation (IKY) – Siemens fellowship of Excellence to Dr. N. Kokras
2015 European College of Neuro-Psychopharmacology (ECNP) fellowship award to Dr. C. Dalla, Amsterdam, Holland
2015 award to Dr. I. Sotiropoulos for presentation of the poster "Tau protein is important for stress-driven depressive pathology and cognitive deficits" at the 12th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry, Athens, Greece
2014 Award to the PhD student V. Kafetzopoulos from the Hellenic Society for neurosciences to present the poster "Repressing depression: Nucleus Reuniens" at FENS FORUM, Milan
2014 award to the PhD student V. Kafetzopoulos for presentation of the poster "Prefrontal cortical-hippocampal communication and antidepressant treatment in rats: exploring sex differences" at the 8th Biannual Meeting of the Hellenic Society for Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, Athens
2013 State Scholarship foundation fellowship for short-term post-doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich to Dr. N. Kokras
2013 International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), Short stay award to the PhD student V. Kafetzopoulos to visit ICVS Institute, University of Minho, Portugal
2013 Award to Dr. N. Kokras for presentation of the poster "Treatment of major depression reduces arterial stiffness" at the 27th European Neuropsychopharmacology meeting, Barcelona.
2013 educational grant to the PhD student V. Kafetzopoulos for presentation of the poster “Antidepressant treatment and prefrontal cortical – hippocampal connection inhibition in the rat forced swim stress: communicating vessels?”, FENS-IBRO Winter School, Obergurgl, Austria
2012 European College of NeuroPsychopharmacology (ECNP) Seminar award to Dr. N. Kokras for a project titled "Depression, antidepressants and surrogate endothelial markers", Nauplio, Greece
2012 Postdoctoral Bursary to Dr. N. Kokras from the British Association of Psychopharmacology (BAP) for the projects "The sex-differentiated behavioral response in the forced swim stress following sertraline treatment" & "A new computer program under development for measuring behavior"
2012 Educational grant to Dr. N. Kokras to attend the MBL-ICB-FAPESP Joint Course in Neural Systems & Behavior after competitive selection in Brazil
2012 Educational grant to V. Kafetzopoulos to present the poster "An intact prefrontal cortex-hippocampal circuit is required for the expression of passive behavior in the rat forced swim test" at the FENS-IBRO EURON workshop school in Braga, Portugal
2011 award to Dr. C. Dalla to visit the ICVS, School of Health Sciences at the University of Minho in Portugal, under the bilateral educational program between Greece and Portugal, funded by the Greek Ministry of Education
2009 European College of Neuropsychopharmacology fellowship to Dr. I. Sotiropoulos at the 22nd ECNP Congress in Instabul, Turkey. Presentation of the poster "Anxiety profile and arginine vasopressin receptor 1B expression in male and female flinders rats after chronic antidepressant treatment"
2008 L’Oreal-Unesco award for young “Women in Sciences” in Greece to Dr. C. Dalla
2008 Educational grant to Dr. N. Kokras from ECNP to attend the Society’s Neuropsychopharmacology School, after competitive selection in Oxford
2008 Young Investigator award to Dr. C. Dalla from the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology presented at the 12th Sbn meeting in Holland
2007- 2010 Marie Curie Outgoing Individual Fellowship entitled “Neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus: a link to depression in women” to Dr. C. Dalla within the EU FP6 program for post-doctoral studies at Rutgers University of New Jersey and Medical School of Athens, Greece
2007 award from the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) to Dr. N. Kokras for the project entitled “Modulation of serotonergic function by chronic antidepressant treatment results in sex specific alterations in the central HPA axis regulation”
2006 Educational grant to Dr. N. Kokras to attend the 1st Neurotrain Training Course in Vienna: Advanced Technologies in Brain Functions and Dysfunctions, Austria
2004 Stipend to C. Dalla to present at the 4th FENS Forum in Lisbon, Portugal the "Behavioral, endocrinological and neurochemical effects induced by chronic mild stress in male and female rats: implications for sex dependent response of the HPA axis and monoaminergic systems"
2002 Travel award to C. Dalla from the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology to present a poster at the 15th ECNP meeting in Barcelona
2002 Poster award to C. Dalla from the Hellenic Society of Neurosciences at the 17th HSN meeting in Crete
2001-2002 Marie Curie fellowship from European Union to C. Dalla for one year training in EURON, Belgium
2000 Poster award at the 13th European College of Neuropsychopharmacology meeting in Munich, Germany