Eleni Antoniadou

Eleni Antoniadou ( born 1988) is a Greek scientist with several masters degrees whose work has been focused on tissue engineering.
Biography
Eleni Antoniadou was born around 1988 in Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Central Greece and graduated in 2009. She continued her studies at University College London, earning a master's degree in nanotechnology and regenerative medicine.
AT UCL she worked in the laboratory of Alexander Seifalian, which focused on bioengineering and scaffolds. Antoniadou and a colleague worked on that trachea, and it was implanted into Andemariam Teklesenbet Beyene by Macchiarini in 2011. This operation was widely hailed in the media at the time. Beyene died in 2014, as did seven of nine other people into whom Macchiarini implanted artificial tracheas between 2011 and 2014; in each of the other two recipients, the artificial trachea was replaced by one from a donor.
While she was in London, Antoniadou co-founded the company Transplants Without Donors, which intended to use tissue engineering to develop artificial organs.
Awards
Antoniadou has received awards citing her work at UCL and her founding of Transplants without Borders, including: selection as the 2013 Woman of the Year at the annual British FDM Every-woman in Technology Awards; 2014 North American Laureate of the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards; selected for the Forbes 2015 "30 Under 30 in Healthcare" list; selected as a 2016 Tällberg Foundation Global Leader Award in Sweden; and in 2016 received the prize for excellence in research and development from the 15th Annual "Giuseppe Sciacca" International Scholars Award given by Pontifical Urban University to young scholars whose work has been exemplary in their field.

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