NLS Profiles in Science

It’s not often that someone is able to find their niche early in their career and find out they are where they are supposed to be to accomplish their best work. Dr. Unnur Thorsteinsdottir is one of those lucky ones. 

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.

Professor Ed Boyden has developed expansion microscopy but his research expands beyond this discovery, for example into the exciting field of optogenetics.

For Sirpa and Markku Jalkanen of Finland, M.D. and Ph.D., married, immunotherapy researchers, working together came as naturally as a courtship.

Anna Wedell, Professor and Research Group Leader of the group Inborn Errors of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Karolinska Institutet and Director of the new Precision Medicine Center Karolinska, explains how research in rare diseases has evolved due to new technologies, and emphasizes that identifying synergies is essential for diagnosing and treating these conditions.

Kirsty Spalding started her career as a neuroscientist and given a succession of casual events, she ended up studying adipose biology.