The researcher Laura Herrero, Rising Star awardee by the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes
The lecturer Laura Herrero, at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the UB Faculty of Pharmacy, affiliated with the campus of international excellence Barcelona Knowledge Campus (BKC).is the only national researcher awarded with the Rising Star Award by the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (EFSD) and the pharmaceutical Jansen. This award, the most important that the EASD confers on young European researchers who study diabetes, was also conferred on the following experts: Joline Beulens (Netherlands), Amélie Bonnefond (France) and Henrike Sell (Germany).
The lecturer Laura Herrero, at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the UB Faculty of Pharmacy, affiliated with the campus of international excellence Barcelona Knowledge Campus (BKC).is the only national researcher awarded with the Rising Star Award by the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (EFSD) and the pharmaceutical Jansen. This award, the most important that the EASD confers on young European researchers who study diabetes, was also conferred on the following experts: Joline Beulens (Netherlands), Amélie Bonnefond (France) and Henrike Sell (Germany).
Laura Herrero, expert from the Regulation of the Lipid Metabolism UB Group, is member of the UB Institute of Biomedicine (IBUB), affiliated centre to the campus of international excellence Barcelona Knowledge Campus (BKC), and to the Biomedical Research Networking centre (CIBER) in Obesity and Nutrition Physiopathology (CIBERobn). The Rising Star award was conferred for her project “Enhancing brown adipose tissue fat-burning power as a therapy against obesity-induced diabetes”, which analyses how the excessive fat characteristic of obesity can be removed, in order to strengthen the action of the brown adipose tissue, the main organ in charge of the energy expenditure. The project also received one of the Lilly research fellowships in 2012.