Nox4 - multiple functions of a NADPH Oxidase in health and disease // Katrin Schröder

Katrin Schröder received her PhD in 1999 at the University of Rostock and her habilitation in 2011 at the University of Frankfurt.

Since 2016 she is associate professor for physiology at the institute of cardiovascular physiology at the medical faculty of the University of Frankfurt.

The focus of her work is the identification of physiological functions of the family of NADPH oxidases.

She found that the transient formation of reactive oxygen species by acutely inducible NADPH oxidases to be involved in phosphatase inhibition or modulation of enzyme activity.

The main focus of her work is Nox4. She identified this constitutive active NADPH oxidase to be an essential component of cellular differentiation and to play protective roles against vascular diseases and cancer development.