Biography
Antje completed her PhD in Medical Sciences at the University of Oxford and is currently working as a Postdoctoral fellow at AstraZeneca in Gothenburg, Sweden. In her PhD, supervised by Prof Anna Gloyn, she focused on identifying genes mediating Type 2 Diabetes risk and as part of her work, Antje developed the first genome-editing pipeline in an authentic human beta-cell model and performed a genome-wide CRISPR screen for human pancreatic beta-cell dysfunction. Since her MSc in Cell and Gene Therapy at the University College London, she has been fascinated by the insights gained from genetic studies to develop targeted or personalised therapies. Her postdoctoral work at AstraZeneca now builds on her interest in using genome editing to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying disease causing mutations
Employer
AstraZeneca
Seminars
From GWAS to Causal Gene- A CRISPR Screen for Type 2 Diabetes