Marie Lagerquist PhD

Dr. Marie graduated from the University of Gothenburg with a degree in Molecular Biology in 1998. In 2004 she got her PhD degree and in 2005 she started her position as a research assistant, financed by the Swedish research council. In 2012 she was appointed Associate Professor at the Institute of Medicine and she is the deputy director at the Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition.

Marie recently demonstrated that a substantial part of the bone-protective effects of estrogen is mediated via ERα situated in the cell membrane, involving membrane-initiated ERα signaling mechanisms. This finding, together with her discovery that estrogen signaling in neuronal cells affects bone mass, are the main focus areas of her current research.