Mirko Trajkovski PhD

Mirko Trajkovski did his Ph.D. within the International Max Planck Ph.D. School in Dresden, Germany in 2005 for his studies on the link between regulated hormone secretion and gene expression in pancreatic beta cells. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded Dr. Walter Seipp's price for the best doctoral work at the University of Dresden in 2005 and won the Carl Gustav Carus price from the Faculty of Medicine the same year. He did his postdoctoral work at the ETH Zurich with Markus Stoffel working on the miRNAs in obesity and insulin resistance, which led to him being appointed as a group leader and a lecturer in metabolism and metabolic diseases at the University College London (UCL) in 2012. End of 2013 he was appointed as a professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the Unversity of Geneva and was awarded the Swiss National Science Foundation professorship. 2014 he won the European Research Council (ERC) starting grant and was recently awarded the ERC consolidator grant starting 2019. The main interests of his lab are the causes and molecular mechanisms underlying metabolic diseases, primarily obesity and insulin resistance, and in particular the roles of the adipose tissue, the gut, the immune system, the bone, and the microbiota in the regulation of metabolism.