Alicia Lundby
Alicia Lundby is Professor of Cardiac Proteomics at the University of Copenhagen. She received a M.Sc. degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Health and Medical Sciences from the University of Copenhagen. During her pre- and post-graduate studies she received training at University of California in San Diego, The RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan and at The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. She was trained in quantitative phosphoproteomics strategies as a post doctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Jesper V. Olsen at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research. She established an independent research group in 2015, where her interest in deep proteomics investigation was combined with cardiac electrophysiology and multi-modal data integration strategies. Her research is focused on uncovering molecular mechanisms contributing to cardiac pathologies. Her group has established methods to quantify protein abundances and signaling pathways from patient heart samples, which in combination with functional studies in matched model organisms, enable data-driven strategies to identify dysregulated proteins and signaling networks characterizing cardiac disease states. The emphasis of her group is to apply unbiased large-scale experimental approaches combining state-of-the-art proteomics with orthogonal approaches, such as human population genomics, single cell transcriptomics, spatial transcriptomics or pharmacovigilance, to identify proteins of key importance in molecular cardiac pathology.