Signe Sørensen Torekov

Kort præsentation

Signe Torekov, humanbiolog, ph.d., er lektor på Biomedicinsk institut og desuden tilknyttet Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Københavns Universitet. Signe Torekov udførte sin ph.d. på Steno Diabetes Center/ Hagedorn Instituttet, Gentofte, Danmark og har været post doc på Biomedicinsk institut, Københavns Universitet.  Signe Torekov har mere end 13 års erfaring i klinisk translationel forskning inden for den patofysiologiske og genetiske baggrund for fedme og type 2 diabetes. Signe er forskningsgruppeleder for flere store undersøgelser af hvilken rolle metabolismehormoner spiller for vægttabsvedligeholdelse samt undersøgelser af patienter med sjældne ændringer i deres arvemasse med betydning for udvikling af diabetes. 

Se mere på: http://bmi.ku.dk/english/research/clinical-translational-metabolism/

Signe Torekov underviser i endokrinologi og er vejleder for studerende. Desuden er hun kursusleder for kurset Diabetes – a global challenge (www.coursera.org/#course/diabetes) udbudt af Københavns Universitet.

Primære forskningsområder

Translational research of the pathophysiological and genetic background of obesity and diabetes

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Associate Professor, Signe Sørensen Torekov, M.Sc. Human biology, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and also part of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen. Dr Torekov did her phd at Steno Diabetes Center / Hagedorn Institute, Gentofte, Denmark and post doc at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

Associate Professor Torekov has more than 13 years experience in clinical translational research of the pathophysiological and genetic background of obesity and diabetes. She is research group leader and principal investigator of several large investigations of appetite hormones responsible for maintenance of weight loss and pathophysiological investigation of humans with rare mutations of type 2 diabetes genes involved in incretin signalling. Furthermore, Dr Torekov is a teacher of endocrinology and supervisor of students at University of Copenhagen and course director of Diabetes – a global challenge (www.coursera.org/#course/diabetes). 

Aktuel forskning

She is research group leader and principal investigator of several large investigations of appetite hormones responsible for maintenance of weight loss and pathophysiological investigation of humans with rare mutations of type 2 diabetes genes involved in incretin signalling.

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

Dr Torekov is a teacher of endocrinology and supervisor of students at University of Copenhagen and course director of Diabetes – a global challenge (www.coursera.org/#course/diabetes). 

Interesseområder

• Diabetes
• Obesity
• Genetics
• Pathophysiology
• Translational research