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Abstract

Our team at the Pediatric Research Center focuses on disorders in growth factor signaling pathways and their influence on adipose tissue development. In cooperation with LIFE Child, we are also investigating the connection between (mal)nutrition and the development of metabolic fatty liver disease (MAFLD) in children and adolescents.

After studying biochemistry at the University of Leipzig, I completed my doctoral thesis and habilitation on NAD salvage metabolism at the Pediatric Research Center with Prof Wieland Kiess and, after a Marie Curie Fellowship with Prof Gareth G. Lavery, at the University of Birmingham, UK. became PI in the Pediatric Research Center. I am also involved in teaching at the Institute of Biochemistry and editor for the newsletter of the European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology.