Anne Loft - Lundbeckfonden Fellow 2023

Anne Loft, Postdoc and Junior group leader, Center for Functional Genomics and Tissue Plasticity (ATLAS), University of Southern Denmark (SDU), has received a fellowship totaling DKK 10 million from the Lundbeck Foundation.

While some individuals suffering from obesity develop serious metabolic-associated complications, other obese individuals are protected from the development of such complications. Anne Loft believes that the key to solving this riddle lies in the fatty tissue of the characters. Using advanced sequencing technologies, her research group therefore wants to uncover whether there are molecular 'signatures' in the fatty tissue of obese individuals that play a role in the propensity to develop obesity-related complications, in this case, liver inflammation and fibrosis.