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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in Greece Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in Greece Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Immunology in Greece Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Immunology in Greece Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award

Overview

Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their research largely focuses on Medicine, with notable contributions in subfields such as Physiology, Surgery, Rheumatology, Immunology, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The scientist's main research topics cover a range of areas, including:

  • Salivary Gland Disorders and Functions
  • Salivary Gland Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • Galectins and Cancer Biology
  • Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
  • Oral Health Pathology and Treatment
  • Diabetes and associated disorders

Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos has published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Journal of Autoimmunity
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Moutsopoulos are:

  • "Primary Sjögren's Syndrome of Early and Late Onset: Distinct Clinical Phenotypes and Lymphoma Development," 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • "A prospective multicenter study assessing humoral immunogenicity and safety of the mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in Greek patients with systemic autoimmune and autoinflammatory rheumatic diseases," 2021, Journal of Autoimmunity
  • "Autoimmune rheumatic diseases: One or many diseases?", 2021, Journal of Translational Autoimmunity
  • "A biomarker for lymphoma development in Sjogren's syndrome: Salivary gland focus score," 2021, Journal of Autoimmunity
  • "Sjögren's Syndrome: The Clinical Spectrum of Male Patients," 2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine

Moutsopoulos has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Clio P. Mavragani
  • Athanasios G. Tzioufas
  • Fotini N. Skopouli
  • Andreas V. Goules
  • Vasileios C. Pezoulas

Beyond journal articles, the scientist has contributed to the academic literature through book publications with Springer International Publishing. These include two editions of "Passion for Excellence" published in 2022 and 2024.

Best Publications

  • Classification criteria for Sjögren's syndrome: a revised version of the European criteria proposed by the American-European Consensus Group

    C Vitali;S Bombardieri;R Jonsson;H M Moutsopoulos

  • Preliminary criteria for the classification of Sjögren's syndrome. Results of a prospective concerted action supported by the European Community.

    Claudio Vitali;Stefano Bombardieri;Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos;Genesio Balestrieri

  • Increased Risk of Lymphoma in Sicca Syndrome

    Stuart S. Kassan;Terry L. Thomas;Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos;Robert Hoover

  • Immune interferon in the circulation of patients with autoimmune disease.

    John J. Hooks;Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos;Shirley A. Geis;Neil I. Stahl

  • Clinical Manifestations and Early Diagnosis of Sjogren Syndrome

    Stuart S. Kassan;Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos

  • The risk of lymphoma development in autoimmune diseases: a meta-analysis.

    Elias Zintzaras;Michael Voulgarelis;Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos

  • Sjögren's Syndrome (Sicca Syndrome): Current Issues

    Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos;Thomas M. Chused;Dean L. Mann;John H. Klippel

  • Clinical evolution, and morbidity and mortalityof primary Sjögren's syndrome

    Fotini N. Skopouli;Urania Dafni;John P.A. Ioannidis;Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos

  • Malignant lymphoma in primary Sjögren's syndrome: A multicenter, retrospective, clinical study by the European concerted action on Sjögren's syndrome

    Michalis Voulgarelis;Urania G. Dafni;David A. Isenberg;Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos

  • Long-term risk of mortality and lymphoproliferative disease and predictive classification of primary Sjögren's syndrome.

    John P. A. Ioannidis;Vassilios A. Vassiliou;Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos

  • Sjogren's Syndrome: Autoimmune Epithelitis

    Haralampos Moutsopoulos

  • Mortality in systemic sclerosis: An international meta-analysis of individual patient data

    John P.A. Ioannidis;John P.A. Ioannidis;Panayiotis G. Vlachoyiannopoulos;Anna Bettina Haidich;Thomas A. Medsger

  • Remission of proliferative lupus nephritis following B cell depletion therapy is preceded by down‐regulation of the T cell costimulatory molecule CD40 ligand: An open‐label trial

    P. P. Sfikakis;J. N. Boletis;S. Lionaki;V. Vigklis

  • Autoantibody profiles in the sera of European patients with myositis

    R. Brouwer;G.J.D. Hengstman;W.T.M. Vree Egberts;H. Ehrfeld

  • Characteristics of the minor salivary gland infiltrates in Sjögren's syndrome.

    Maria I. Christodoulou;Efstathia K. Kapsogeorgou;Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos

  • High prevalence of anti-cardiolipin and other autoantibodies in a healthy elderly population.

    M N Manoussakis;A G Tzioufas;M P Silis;P J Pange

  • Risk factors for thrombosis and primary thrombosis prevention in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus with or without antiphospholipid antibodies

    Maria G. Tektonidou;Katerina Laskari;Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos;Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos

  • Anti-signal recognition particle autoantibodies : marker of a necrotising myopathy

    G.J.D. Hengstman;H.J. ter Laak;W.T.M. Vree Egberts;I.E. Lundberg

  • The geoepidemiology of Sjögren's syndrome.

    Clio P. Mavragani;Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos

  • Hematologic manifestations and predictors of lymphoma development in primary Sjögren syndrome: clinical and pathophysiologic aspects.

    Evangelia Baimpa;Issa J. Dahabreh;Michael Voulgarelis;Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos

  • Infliximab and methotrexate in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis of dosage regimens

    Elias Zintzaras;Issa J. Dahabreh;Stavroula Giannouli;Michael Voulgarelis

Frequent Co-Authors

Athanasios G. Tzioufas
Athanasios G. Tzioufas National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Alexandros A. Drosos
Alexandros A. Drosos University of Ioannina
John P. A. Ioannidis
John P. A. Ioannidis Stanford University
Pierre Youinou
Pierre Youinou University of Western Brittany
Elias Zintzaras
Elias Zintzaras University Of Thessaly
Thomas M. Chused
Thomas M. Chused National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Michael Koutsilieris
Michael Koutsilieris National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Norman Talal
Norman Talal Columbia University
Marinos C. Dalakas
Marinos C. Dalakas Thomas Jefferson University
Niki M. Moutsopoulos
Niki M. Moutsopoulos National Institutes of Health

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