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Sarela García-Santamarina is dedicated to the complex metabolism of the microbiome
At the beginning of the year, the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (Leibniz-HKI) welcomes a new head of department: Microbiologist Prof. Dr. Sarela García-Santamarina is adding a new facet to the Leibniz-HKI's research profile with the newly founded Deep Microbiome Metabolomics department. In future, Sarela García-Santamarina and her newly established team will focus on the question of how complex communities of microorganisms metabolize certain molecules. It is assumed that active pharmaceutical ingredients can be altered by the human gut microbiome, which influences their efficacy and can lead to individual differences in drug response.
Sarela García-Santamarina comes from Spain and was appointed to the W3 professorship Deep Microbiome Metabolomics in a joint appointment procedure between the Leibniz-HKI and Friedrich Schiller University Jena. On January 7th, University Vice President Prof. Dr. Karina Weichold presented her with the certificate of appointment. After studying chemistry in Spain, the scientist's previous stations took her to London, where she gained her Master's degree in Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases. Back in Spain, she completed her doctoral thesis in biomedicine and then went to Durham in the USA for a postdoctoral stay. She is also already familiar with Germany, as she spent her second postdoc phase at the renowned EMBL in Heidelberg with a EIPOD3 Marie Curie Fellowship from the EU. Before moving to Jena, Sarela García-Santamarina led her own group in Portugal, where she was already working on the complex metabolism of the microbiome.
This field of research is to be expanded at the Leibniz-HKI in the future, as findings on the metabolism of new active substances are important for the success of therapy and thus for the development and subsequent approval of new drugs. With the new professorship, the Leibniz-HKI is strengthening its application-oriented research. The Jena Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse will also benefit from the new topic, which in future will be worked on together with bioinformaticians and using artificial intelligence methods.
“The international and warm atmosphere at the Leibniz-HKI has inspired me from the very beginning. I am delighted to be part of this interdisciplinary research institute and to be able to pass on my enthusiasm for research to the next generation through teaching,” says Prof. Dr. Sarela García-Santamarina.
Dr. Michael Ramm
michael.ramm@leibniz-hki.de
03641 5321011
Sarela García-Santamarina is the new professor at Leibniz-HKI and Jena University
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