News
Heike Heuer at MCT8 Symposium
After two years of COVID-related cancellations, in 2022 the MCT8 Symposium took place again in Brussels, Belgium.
LOCOTACT PI Heike Heuer was invited to share her well-known expertise in the field and gave her presentation with the title "Dissecting the cell-specific function of Mct8 and Oatp1c1 in the mouse brain".
The MCT8 symposium brings together physicians and researchers from around the world working hard to shed light on this rare disease. Heikes Heuer's borad knowledge in this area was very much appreciated at the symposium.
Lars Möller: Session chair at ETA 2022
Lars Möller, LOCOTACT PI, was invited to this year's ETA 2022 taking place in Brussels, Belgium. In the special session "A Year in..." on September 10th, 2023, he looked back on "A Year in Basic Thyroidology".
This talk was based in his recent publication in Nature Reviews Endocrinology entitled "Translational perspectives from TSHR, MCT8 and TRα research". Find the publication here.
Also, he chaired the Session "Thyroid Hormone Action in health and disease or Thyroid Hormones from Synthesis to Tissue-specific Action" at the 2022 ETA, where he gave another presention himself and spoke about "Differing roles for thyroid hormone receptor isoforms in pituitary feedback."
44th Annual Meeting of the European Thyroid Association
who contributed to ETA and represented LOCOTACT!!!
LOCOTACT Lectures - Mathew Fuxjager
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New publication!
Congratulations to Adriana Arrulo Pereira (PhD candidate in P01), her PI Markus Schwaninger and all team members to this excellent publication doi: 10.1093/brain/awac243
It is Adriana's first shared 1st Authorship!
Well done!!!
Thomas Münte elected as Vice President Medicine, University Lübeck
We congratulate LOCOTACT PI Thomas Münte for his new position as the Vice President of Medicine of the University Lübeck. The Academic Senate of Lübeck University now voted for the so far temporary position holder as the new Vice President of Medicine.
Joachim Spranger elected new Dean of the Charité
LOCOTACT PI Joachim Spranger has been elected as the new dean of Charité, Berlin. Until April 2022 he was the Academic Vice Dean. We congratulate him cordially.
Article in Deutsches Ärzteblatt: LOCOTACT PIs explain effects of local thyroid hormone action
LOCOTACT PIs Dagmar Führer-Sakel, Jens Mittag, Helge Müller-Fielitz and Lars Möller feature an article in the recent issue of the "Deutsche Ärzteblatt".
A functional thyroid hormone deficiency does not necessarily show up in abnormal serum concentrations. What this means for common diseases such as myocardial infarction - and potentially also for its therapy - was a topic at the 2022 DGE Congress.
Read the full article online here or download the PDF version here.