Meet our Early Career Scientist Grant Winner Isabell Kaczmarek
Isabell Kaczmarek is a PhD Student at the Rudolf-Schönheimer-Institute for Biochemistry at the University of Leipzig in Germany. The grant will be used to cover the registration fee for the virtual Pharm-Tox Conference in March 2021, and the purchase of the mouse Leptin ELISA necessary to progress Isabell’s research.
Thank you, Hello Bio! I am very honoured and grateful. Winning the Early Career Scientist Grant is a great support for my ongoing research. I will use parts of the grant to purchase an ELISA to support my lab work on obesity and to register for the 6th German Pharm-Tox Summit. Participating at this conference will broaden my knowledge, especially about the latest advances in the field of G protein-coupled receptors. Isabell Kaczmarek, University of Leipzig, Germany, Hello Bio Early Career Scientist Grant winner
Congratulations Isabell. First, can you tell us a bit more about what you're working on at the moment?
Currently, I am working on Adhesion GPCR in adipose tissue to elucidate their function in healthy and obese conditions. With the raising prevalence of obesity, research identifying molecular mechanisms in adipocytes will help to understand how pathophysiological conditions develop.
What is it about your field of research that gets you most excited?
Obesity has already reached pandemic dimensions. Further, it is a major risk factor for developing comorbidities like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. To be able to help affected patients, it is very important to understand signalling pathways, which change under obese conditions. With our basic research about Adhesion GPCR in adipose tissue, we contribute to understanding obesity in order to help people suffering from this condition. Working interdisciplinary in vivo, in vitro and in silico to analyze novel key regulators is most exciting for me.
Which scientists working today do you most admire, and why?
Michael Czech and Peter Tontonoz are not only leading researchers regarding adipose tissue but also charismatic speakers and helpful advisors at conferences.
What do you think are the biggest challenges currently facing life scientists and their work?
Due to the ongoing pandemic and the associated and necessary governmental restrictions, it is quite hard to work continuously in the laboratory and generate data.What’s your favourite science quote?
“Your theory is crazy, but not crazy enough to be true” Niels Bohr
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Thank you so much Isabell! We wish you all the best with your research.
You can connect with Isabell on LinkedIn here.
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