Kirsty Spalding
Dr Spalding completed her doctoral studies in the field of Neuroscience at the University of Western Australia, Australia. Subsequently Dr Spalding spent a year as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. This was followed by postdoctoral work in the field of neural stem cells (2002-2005), an Assistant Professorship awarded by the Swedish Research Council and currently she is Professor of Adipocyte Biology at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
The Spalding research group is interested in human adipose tissue, with a particular focus on adipocytes. How human fat cells respond to overnutrition and how such responses contribute to disease states are investigated. Recognition for her work includes being recipient of an ERC Young Investigator award, Vallee Foundation Scholar, Fernströms prize in Medicine, Novo Nordisk Excellence award, Marie Curie Outgoing Fellowship award, Sven and Ebba Hagberg prize for medicine and Wallenberg Scholar.
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