Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas – CSIC – Spain/Ankar...
Prof. Dr. Ana Martinez 1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? My scientific goals are focused in drug discovery for different unmet human diseases. In the last 20 years I…
University of Turku- UTU- Finland
Prof. Dr. Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen 1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? I took a course on electron microscopy during my MSc studies, and fell in love with the method. Then…
Fraunhofer IME ScreeningPort- IME-SP- Germany
Dr. Ole Pless 1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? I was first exposed to autophagy during a joint project with the research group of Prof. Dr. Lucie Carrier from…
Anaxomics Biotech SL- AX – Spain
Dr. Judith Farres 1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? Anaxomics technology is not disease focused but our collaboration with some researchers in the field (Caty Casas) brought us in…
Kings College London – KINGS- United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Heinz Jungbluth 1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? I work as a Child Neurologist and my interest in autophagy was stimulated by a single patient, an unfortunate…
The Institute of Cancer Research- ICR- United Kingdom
Dr. Vladimir Kirkin 1.How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? I entered the field in 2006 when doing work on ubiquitin-like proteins in the group of Ivan Dikic in Frankfurt. Back…
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas – CSIC – Spain
Dr. Patricia Boya 1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? I was interested in the relationship between lysosomes and cell death and found that autophagy was a pro-survival pathway in…