Jens Lund has just completed his PhD Scholarship on ‘Deciphering the Role of Lactate in Brown Fat – Brain Cross-Talk’ at the Faculty of Health and Medical Science, University of Copenhagen with a grant from the Danish Diabetes Academy.
Jens’ project title was ‘The role of circulating lactate in regulation of energy balance’.
We asked Jens’ to reflect on his time as a DDA-funded researcher with seven questions
One of many highlights was traveling to Banff and experiencing the amazing Canadian nature while ‘sciencing’ appetite regulation at a keystone symposia.
A general low-point has been to experience the downsides of classical peer review and scientific publishing.
My PhD project has uncovered that treatment osmolarity can be a profound confounding factor in studies of metabolites. Thus, laboratory Technician Kristoffer Racz and Associate Professor Charlotte Mehlin Sørensen from the Department of Biomedical Sciences at University of Copenhagen have been key collaborators helping us with numerous osmolarity measurements.
There has been many great courses and events organised by the DDA. The DDA summer school stands out – it is a fantastic course both scientifically and in terms of socialising and creating new networks!
Perhaps to try and prioritize working more on the methods section and the manuscript draft alongside the research project instead of writing it all up at the end.
I am currently employed as a postdoc at Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen. Here, my plan is to begin studying human weight gain resistance as a way to help improve prevention and treatment of obesity and cardiometabolic disorders.
Hopefully, I will still be trying to understand the biology underlying obesity and cardiometabolic diseases as a researcher. Alternatively, I might be chasing the next story as an investigative science journalist.
The PhD project was also supported by a research grant from the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (EFSD) and Lilly European Diabetes Research Programme 2019
We wish Jens all the best in his future career.
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