NLS Profiles in Science

Thomas Karikari’s career has taken him across three continents: from Ghana to the UK and Sweden, and then to the US. Now an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and one of Nature Index’s “rising stars in ageing research”, he is helping move Alzheimer’s blood biomarkers beyond individual markers and towards a more complete picture of disease biology.

Spanish biochemist and molecular biologist Salvador Aznar Benitah’s research focuses on how adult stem cells function in normal conditions, aging, and cancer, with particular interest in epigenetics, circadian rhythms, and the mechanisms that allow certain cancer cells to initiate metastasis.

It’s one thing to “do” physics – but it’s another to explain its fundamentals to others, and the role that physics and other sciences play in their lives.

Dr. Joanna Rorbach, principal researcher at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at Karolinska Institutet, has been awarded the prestigious Göran Gustafsson Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien).

With a family legacy in medicine dating back to the Shogun era, the Japanese immunologist Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi has dedicated his career to the science. A 30-year-old pivotal discovery led him to this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research in peripheral immune tolerance.

Nobel Prize laureate Mary E. Brunkow’s career path has shifted between industry and academia but her end goal to generate clinical benefit and her passion for exploring new areas have never wavered.