Dr. Marina Martinić Kavur works in Genos as a researcher since March 2018 where she’s involved in several projects studying the immunoglobulin glycosylation in health and disease. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Biology and a Master’s degree in Immunology and Physiology at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science. During her studies, she won a Dean’s award and 2nd place at the national level of Nesta FameLab competition for the young science communicators. Between 2012. and 2013. she worked as a young researcher studying the bone morphogenetic protein at the University of Zagreb, School of Medicine. In 2013. she was accepted to the international Vienna Biocenter PhD Programme (Vienna, Austria). During her PhD studies, she worked at the Institute of Molecular Pathology (Vienna, Austria) in the lab of Jan-Michael Peters, and she spent a part of the time in the lab of Jan Ellenberg at EMBL Heidelberg (Germany). Her efforts contributed to the generation of the first 4-dimensional map of proteins regulating human cell division, published in Nature. She earned her PhD degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Vienna in 2018.
The Sustainable Development Goals or Global Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". The SDGs were set in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030. Glycoscience plays a role in achieving eight of the seventeen.
The relative risk of many diseases increases with age. Individuals age at different rates, and while some might show a surprising level of health and fitness in their eight decades, others might be troubled by age-related diseases already in their late thirties. An increasing body of evidence suggests glycans play a role at establishing an individual’s risk of having poor health.
Chronic kidney failure is one of the most common and debilitating complications of diabetes. Changes in glycosylation of immunoglobulin G (IgG) accompany biological agеing and regulates inflammation in diabetes – a process that participates in kidney function decline. A new study looks at the correlation between kidney function and IgG glycosylation.