Ascending Investigators
Signe Sørensen Torekov
Disruption of the neurobiological body-weight defense system in chronic childhood-onset obesity
Professor mso
University of Copenhagen
Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, has received a Lundbeck Foundation Ascending Investigators research grant worth DKK 4,898,890.
Her project seeks to gain a deeper understanding of the neurobiological factors underlying the development of obesity in the earliest childhood years – and ultimately to enable development of new types of treatment. Statistically, children who become obese in the first years of childhood are at high risk of suffering from obesity in later life.
