Candidate for President-Elect

João Laranjinha

João Laranjinha is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. He graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences (University of Coimbra) in 1984 and got a PhD in Biochemistry (University of Coimbra) in 1996. He did Postdoc studies with Enrique Cadenas in 1997-1998 at the Dept. Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, studying Free Radicals and Antioxidants in Biology. His research is focused on the functional impact of nitric oxide in the brain as a neurometabolic regulator and as a mediator of neurovascular coupling with impact in aging and neurodegeneration. He is also interested in dietary nitrite-driven regulatory processes, encompassing the non-enzymatic production of nitric oxide along the nitrate:nitrite:NO pathway. He has been awarded several prizes, including the Science and Humanity award by The Oxygen Club of California and is member of the editorial board of major journals in his area of research, including Redox Biology, Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Free Radical Research and Biofactors. He has chaired the organizing and scientific committees of several international conferences, including the European (SFRRE 2007) and International (SFRRI 2018) meetings of the Society for Free Radical Research. He has been member of the council of the European Society for Neurochemistry and the European Society for Free Radical Research for several years and President of the Portuguese Biochemical Society (2014-18). Currently, he serves as member of the Advanced Courses Committee of FEBS and as the president of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Biochemical Society.

Website: https://cnc.uc.pt/en/people/j-laranjinha

Candidates for Treasurer

Candidate 1: Irundika Dias

Dr Irundika Dias is a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at Aston Medical School, Aston University, UK. She received her BSc (2003) at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, MSc (2005) at Brunel University, UK and PhD (2009) at Aston University. She received the prestigious Kidney Research UK fellowship award in 2014. Her research focuses on understanding cellular effects of oxidative stress and its relevance to health and disease. To understand the mechanisms, she uses a variety of in vitro model systems and molecular biology, proteomic and lipidomic tools. She published more than 50 scientific papers, conference proceedings and a book chapter in the fields of oxidative stress, inflammation and immunity. She is a member of several national and international societies and serves as a peer reviewer for international journals. Irundika has been a member of SFRR-E for 12 years and has actively participated in many conferences. She organised SFRR-E meeting symposia in 2016 and 2022, and in 2018, she received the Catherine Pasquier Award for her achievements in the area of free radical research and ageing. She is the chair of Biochemical Society (UK) research area VI, where she led a team in review meeting proposals, contribute to scientific meeting planning, while encouraging interdisciplinary collaborations and diverse meetings. She also has experience in managing budgets and financial reports as a principal investigator on research grants.

Website: https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/irundika-dias

Candidate 2: Colin Murdoch

Colin Murdoch is a Professor and Head of Doctoral Studies at the School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Scotland. His research focuses on endothelial redox regulation in cardiovascular disease. He joined SFRR-E in 2005 while conducting his PhD at the BHF Centre of Excellence, Kings College London, where he used in vivo phenotyping techniques to determine the contribution of endothelial Nox4-H2O2 to vascular tone and protective effects in AngII-induced cardiac fibrosis. Colin moved to the USA to conduct post-doctoral training at the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University, and in 2012, received a SFRR-I travel award, for the investigation of redox regulation of antiangiogenic factor (sFlt-1) and HiF1alpha in peripheral artery disease. Colin returned to the UK in 2014, through a prestigious Marie Curie Knowledge Transfer Fellowship (rejoining SFRR-E) and set up his research in redox regulation in gestational hypertension. He recently coordinated an EU Innovative training network, iPlacenta involving organ on a chip technology and real-time assessment of oxidative stress. SFRR-E and SFRR-I have been a pivotal part of his scientific growth through the interactive and encouraging society conferences and online seminars, with regular attendance of the annual meetings facilitating the development of key collaborations and friendships. His goal is to contribute to running of the society so that others can benefit from this positive experience.

Website: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/colin-murdoch

Candidate for General Secretary

Clare Hawkins (stands for re-election)

Clare Hawkins is a Professor with special responsibilities in Oxidant Biology, at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Clare moved to Denmark in 2017, after nearly 20 years in Australia, at the Heart Research Institute in Sydney, where she was the Scientific Director and Head of the Inflammation Group. Clare is a former Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Principal Research Fellow in Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney. She completed her PhD in Chemistry at the University of York (UK) before moving to the Heart Research Institute in 1997. Her research focus is to gain a better understanding of the role of innate immune cell dysfunction, including oxidant formation, in the development of chronic inflammatory disease, particularly atherosclerosis. While in Australia, Clare was an active member of SFRR-Australasia, serving the Society as Secretary, before her election as President in 2012. She received the inaugural SFRR-E Leopold Flohé Redox Pioneer Award and a SFRR-Australasia distinguished service and achievement award in 2018. Clare was elected as General Secretary of SFRR-E in 2021, following service as a Council member, and has enjoyed the opportunity to contribute more widely to SFRR-E including by helping to develop and promote new initiatives for ECR members, and working with others to boost the membership and reach of SFRR-E.

Website: https://bmi.ku.dk/english/Staff/?pure=en/persons/582014

Candidate for Meeting Officer

Niki Chondrogianni (stands for re-election)

Niki Chondrogianni is a Research Director and Group Leader at the Institute of Chemical Biology (ICB), National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF), Athens, Greece. She obtained her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Athens in Greece while she was a short-term visitor at the University Denis Diderot - Paris 7 in France and at the University of Bristol in the UK. She conducted her post-doctoral studies at the NHRF in Athens. During her post-doc, she was also trained in the use of the model organism C .elegans at the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in Greece. She became Research Assistant Professor at the NHRF in 2009, a Research Associate Professor in 2013 and she has been a Research Director since 2022. Niki was awarded a SFRR-E Catherine Pasquier award in 2011, and the Leopold Flohé Redox Pioneer award in 2023. She has served SFRR-E as a Council member and was elected as the second meeting officer of the Society in 2021. She has played an integral role in the organisation of the biannual SFRR-E free radical summer schools, held in conjunction with FEBS, in Spetses, Greece.

Website: http://eie.gr/nhrf/institutes/icb/research_groups/ChondrogianniNiki_group_en.html

Candidates for Council

Sander Bekeschus

Sander Bekeschus moved from Berlin to Greifswald (Germany) to study human biology and, after research missions to Boston (USA) and Christchurch (New Zealand, C. Winterbourn's lab), to receive his Ph.D. from the Department of Immunology in Greifswald (thesis co-promoter: Mark Hampton). His main interest being oxidants, especially produced in versatile qualities and quantities using gas plasma technology, and their effects and therapeutic utilization to target diseases in the context of inflammation and immunity, Sander Bekeschus works at the interphase of several disciplines. Since 2016, he has been heading a research group in Greifswald, and since 2023, he has also been a professor at the Clinic for Dermatology at Rostock University Medical Center (Germany). In 2024, the Marie Curie Doctoral training school plasmACT starts training 8 PhD students, a project consortium that Sander Bekeschus has initiated and is the speaker of. He has published several scientific articles (h-index: 45) and is also the Editor of the "Redox Biology in Plasma Medicine" book (to be published in July 2024) within Helmut Sies' and Enrique Cadenas' prestigious "Oxidative Stress and Disease" book series. Sander Bekeschus has been a member of the Society for Free Radical Research Europe (SFRR-E) since 2012 and has participated as a mentor in the mentor-mentee program of the society in 2023.

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sander-Bekeschus

Mascia Benedusi

Mascia Benedusi is an Assistant Professor at University of Ferrara, Italy. She gained her PhD in Neurobiological Sciences, at the University of Ferrara in 2004. Mascia is an extremely dynamic and exceptional researcher with the unique managing skills. This has been recognised by the University of Ferrara, highlighted by her promotion to Associate Professor (from 1st September 2024). She has been involved in the SFRR-E meetings for several years. Her research work is focused on the role of oxidative stress and redox homeostasis in different human body organs or tissues. During the last years her studies have been centred on the link between oxidative stress and melanoma development and progression. She has published 45 peer-reviewed manuscripts in high quality journals and has an H-index of 16. Mascia was in the organizing committee for the SFRR-Europe annual meeting in Ferrara in 2019 and also for the first “The Future of Redox Biology” congress in Siena in 2022.

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mascia-Benedusi

Helena Cocheme

Dr Helena Cocheme is a senior lecturer at Imperial College London, and heads the Redox Metabolism Group at the MRC Laboratory for Medical Sciences. She has recently played a key role in the relaunch of the UK REDOX NETWORK, which recently held a UK wide meeting at King’s College London. Helena also recently contributed to the online redox seminar series coordinated by the SFRR-E ECR committee. Helena’s Redox Metabolism research group based in the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences examines how the dysregulation of redox homeostasis is implicated in the pathophysiology of many age-related diseases, as well as in the ageing process itself. Her team are studying the fruit fly Drosophila as a powerful and tractable in vivo system, with its combination of short lifespan and strong evolutionary conservation of central signalling pathways and druggable targets regulating energy metabolism and lifespan. She has published a significant number of impact papers, and a current Scopus search highlights 41 publications with an h-index = 34.

Websites: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/helena.cocheme

https://lms.mrc.ac.uk/research-group/redox-metabolism/

Ann Cuypers

Ann Cuypers is a full professor at Hasselt University, Belgium, and heads the Environmental Biology – Plant Abiotic Stress Signaling & Solutions (PASS2) research group. Ann’s research is focused on plant abiotic stress responses using different approaches related to oxidative stress. She has used Arabidopsis as a model plant, and also introduced rice as a crop model in her research group, to examine abiotic stress, induced by metals, radionuclides, herbicides and more recently heat stress. Her results have been recently translated into solutions for sustainable agriculture using soil amendments and priming strategies in an interdisciplinary applied research line, resulting in patent application for a screening platform for plant growth and toxicity (recently filed). Ann has a wide international network and has extensive expertise in many different technologies, including those of direct relevance to redox reactions in plants. Her wide network and active involvement with other scientific societies, particularly her role as President of the Plant Oxygen Group (POG), will be valuable in strengthening and further developing collaboration between SFRR-E and POG.

Website: https://www.uhasselt.be/en/who-is-who/ann-cuypers

Irundika Dias

Dr Irundika Dias is a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at Aston Medical School, Aston University, UK. She received her BSc (2003) at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, MSc (2005) at Brunel University, UK and PhD (2009) at Aston University. She received the prestigious Kidney Research UK fellowship award in 2014. Her research focuses on understanding cellular effects of oxidative stress and its relevance to health and disease. To understand the mechanisms, she uses a variety of in vitro model systems and molecular biology, proteomic and lipidomic tools. She published more than 50 scientific papers, conference proceedings and a book chapter in the fields of oxidative stress, inflammation and immunity. She is a member of several national and international societies and serves as a peer reviewer for international journals. Irundika has been a member of SFRR-E for 12 years and has actively participated in many conferences. She organised SFRR-E meeting symposia in 2016 and 2022, and in 2018, she received the Catherine Pasquier Award for her achievements in the area of free radical research and ageing. She is the chair of Biochemical Society (UK) research area VI, where she led a team in review meeting proposals, contribute to scientific meeting planning, while encouraging interdisciplinary collaborations and diverse meetings. She also has experience in managing budgets and financial reports as a principal investigator on research grants.

Website: https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/irundika-dias

Giuseppe Filomeni

Giuseppe Filomeni received his PhD in 2002. After completing his post-doctoral education at the Institute for Cancer Research “Regina Elena” (Rome, Italy) and University “G. D’Annunzio” (Chieti, Italy), he was appointed as a Young Researcher within the “Funding for Base Research Investments” program of the Italian Ministry of University and Research, during which he was awarded the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Free Radical Research-Europe (SFRR—E). He worked as a fellow of the “Italian Association for Cancer Research” and obtained the academic position of Assistant and, next, Associate Professor at the Department of Biology of Tor Vergata University (Rome, Italy). In 2010, he became Group Leader at the Research Center “IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana" (Rome, Italy) and, in 2013, he established his team at DCI, where he contributed to establishing the Cell Stress and Survival Unit. Two years later he was appointed Group Leader of the Redox Biology research group. Currently, his main research focus is to study the role of S-nitrosylation — the post-translational modification induced by nitric oxide — in human pathophysiology, with special emphasis on cancer.

Website: https://www.cancer.dk/danish-cancer-institute/research-groups/redox-biology/

Paola Gamba (stands for re-election)

Paola Gamba is an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Turin, Italy. She obtained her doctorate at the University of Turin in 2007, on a project focused on altered cholesterol metabolism in age-related chronic inflammatory diseases. Paola has extensive expertise in understanding how cholesterol oxidation contributes to pathology, including vascular remodeling during atherosclerosis and the progression of neurodegenerative dementias. In 2017, she was awarded the Fondazione Ferrero Travelling Award, to present at the Gordon Research Conference, Oxidative Stress & Disease, held in Lucca (Barga), Italy, and was a recipient of the SFRR-E Catherine Pasquier award for studies in neuroprotection. Paola was also presented with the People’s Poster Presentation Award at the European Network for Oxysterol Research Symposium held in Edinburgh, UK, in 2019. Paola has had an active involvement in the work of SFRR-E, since her election to the Council in 2023.

Website: https://medchirurgiasl.campusnet.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?paola.gamba#tab-profilo

Katarzyna Goljanek-Whysall

Dr Whysall is an Associate Professor and Vice Dean at the University of Galway and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. She obtained her PhD at the University of East Anglia, where she studied the role of microRNAs in skeletal muscle development. In 2013, she moved to Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, Liverpool to study the role of epigenetic changes in sarcopenia and osteoarthritis development. In her current position at the University of Galway, she is studying the therapeutic potential of microRNAs and oxidised microRNAs against muscle loss during ageing and disease, such as cachexia and ALS. Dr Whysall is also the organizer of the next SFRR-Europe annual scientific meeting which will take place in Galway next year.

Website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/kasiawhysall/

Ivan Gout

Ivan graduated as an MD at Lviv State Medical University (Ukraine) in 1983 with a great passion to become a surgeon in oncology. Thinking that a PhD in experimental oncology would help to realize his dream, he obtained his doctorate at the Institute of Experimental Oncology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1987. A fellowship from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) took him even further from clinical oncology, and he commenced post-doctoral training at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (UCL Branch). In 1996, he started his own group at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, focusing on the regulation of growth via the S6 kinase pathway. Since 2003, he has been a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at UCL – now renamed Structural and Molecular Biology, where he has an active research group working on the regulation of cell growth and metabolism in health and disease. He has a strong research (142 papers in peer-reviewed journals, H-Index 60) and patent (10 world-wide patents) portfolio and run two anti-cancer drug discovery programs.

Website: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/8359-ivan-gout

Betul Karademir Yilmaz

Betul Karademir Yilmaz is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey and Director of Genetic and Metabolic Disease Research and Investigation Center (GEMHAM). Prof. Betul Karademir has been an SFRR-E member for years and she was awarded the Catherine Pasquier Award in 2016. She has been working in the area of cancer and cancer therapeutics, with a focus on precision oncology. More specifically, she is interested in targeting the ubiquitin-proteasome system based on omics data while she investigates the regulatory mechanisms behind proteasome inhibitors in cancer therapy and their relation to redox regulation.

Website: https://avesis.marmara.edu.tr/betulkarademir/deneyim

Aleksandra Korac

Prof. Aleksandra Korac is a Professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology, Belgrade, Serbia. She obtained her PhD degree in Biology from the University of Belgrade-Faculty of Biology in 1999. The main area of her scientific interest was molecular physiology of the cells, mainly focused on the investigation of molecular mechanisms of redox regulation in fundamental cellular processes (proliferation, hyperplasia, angiogenesis, mitochondriogenesis) in various pathological and physiological conditions. Her particular interests continue to lie with mechanisms of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species action at transcriptional, translational and posttranslational levels. To date, Prof. Korac has 107 publications, 12 invited lectures, 105 international conference papers, 31 national conference papers, 1811 citations, and h-index 24 (Scopus). Prof. Korac is devoted to original and innovative scientific contributions. She is a member of a team that participates in the realisation of several national and international projects in areas of structural and redox biology and actively contributes to its affirmation in Serbia and across Europe. She is an active contributor to the Serbian Society for Mitochondrial and Free Radical Physiology (SSMFRP) activities and is a long-term member of the SFRR-E, member of many national and European scientific societies, and co-chair of the SSMFRP board. As a member of the SSMFRP board, Prof. Korac has been deeply involved in the organisation of scientific meetings, and actively participated in organising the annual Congress of SFRR-E held in Belgrade 2021.

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aleksandra-Korac

Ana Ledo

Ana Ledo is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra and PI at the Center for Neurosciences and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra. She was awarded her PhD in Biochemistry (with honours) from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2007. She undertook postdoctoral work (2007- 2009) at the Faculty of National Resources and Engineering (University of Algarve) and at the Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC-University of Coimbra). Her early research focused on understanding the role of nitric oxide (•NO) in the modulation of neurometabolic and neurovascular coupling. More recently, she has made important contributions to link changes in •NO bioactivity and bioavailability to derailment of neurovascular and neurometabolic in aging and neurodegeneration and to understanding the role of high-fat diets in precipitating neurological alterations. Ana Ledo serves on the editorial board of the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine, and has been actively enrolled in SFRR-E activities over the years, including the co-organization with Bárbara Rocha of the First FEBS and SFRR-E Redox Medicine Workshop in Luso in 2023, the symposium “the microbiota-gut-brain axis: a journey from dietary nitrate to nitric oxide via inorganic nitrite” at the 2019 SFFR-E meeting in Ferrara and was also a member of the organizing committee of SFRR-I 2018, held in Lisbon. Ana has also won several prestigious awards, including the SFRR-E Leopold Flohé Redox Pioneer Young Investigator Award in 2019, and a Future of Redox Biology Award from SFRR-I in 2022.

Website: https://cnc.uc.pt/en/people/a-ledo

Antonio Martinez-Ruiz (stands for re-election)

Antonio Martínez-Ruiz graduated in Chemistry (specialty in Biochemistry) at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (UCM) in 1995, earning a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2000 also at UCM. He started his relationship with redox biomedicine working in non-classical nitric oxide signalling, mainly S-nitrosylation, as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Santiago Lamas, first at the CIB-CSIC (Centre for Biological Research) and next at the CNIC (Centre for Cardiovascular Research), both in Madrid. He has also worked as visiting scientist at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Mitochondrial Biology Unit of the MRC (Cambridge, UK). In 2008 he joined the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS-IP) as a Researcher of the Spanish National Health System, starting an independent group dedicated to the study of redox signalling in the response to hypoxia. During the first years at the IIS-IP his group continued the study of the functional role of oxidative post-translational modification of cysteine residues, induced both by RNS and ROS, using proteomic and functional methods. Searching for the molecular details of redox signalling in acute hypoxia, the group has moved to study the mitochondrial sodium/calcium exchanger NCLX, uncovering the role of mitochondrial sodium import in the regulation redox signalling and oxidative damage, applying it in different pathophysiological processes such as stroke or inflammation. He has received the “Catherine Pasquier Award” of the SFRR-E in 2015. Since 2017 he is also a Lecturer in Biochemistry at the School of Pharmacy of UCM. Since 2022 he serves in the Council of the SFRR-E.

Website: https://produccioncientifica.ucm.es/investigadores/143992/detalle

Colin Murdoch

Colin Murdoch is a Professor and Head of Doctoral Studies at the School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Scotland. His research focuses on endothelial redox regulation in cardiovascular disease. He joined SFRR-E in 2005 while conducting his PhD at the BHF Centre of Excellence, Kings College London, where he used in vivo phenotyping techniques to determine the contribution of endothelial Nox4-H2O2 to vascular tone and protective effects in AngII-induced cardiac fibrosis. Colin moved to the USA to conduct post-doctoral training at the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University, and in 2012, received a SFRR-I travel award, for the investigation of redox regulation of antiangiogenic factor (sFlt-1) and HiF1alpha in peripheral artery disease. Colin returned to the UK in 2014, through a prestigious Marie Curie Knowledge Transfer Fellowship (rejoining SFRR-E) and set up his research in redox regulation in gestational hypertension. He recently coordinated an EU Innovative training network, iPlacenta involving organ on a chip technology and real-time assessment of oxidative stress. SFRR-E and SFRR-I have been a pivotal part of his scientific growth through the interactive and encouraging society conferences and online seminars, with regular attendance of the annual meetings facilitating the development of key collaborations and friendships. His goal is to contribute to running of the society so that others can benefit from this positive experience.

Website: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/colin-murdoch

Christiane Ott

Dr. Christiane Ott is a project leader in the department of Molecular Toxicology at the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, focusing on the impact of proteolysis on heart function in aging and metabolic dysfunction and how both can be improved by nutrition. Her doctoral thesis investigated the intracellular proteolysis during cell aging and the influence of age-related protein modifications, focusing on the Ubiquitin-Proteasomal and the Autophagy-Lysosomal System, which also involved a research stay in the group of Prof. Rafael Radi at the University of Montevideo in 2016. She showed that the age-related loss of proteasomal activity cannot be compensated by the other system, in particular by an impairment of autophagy, for which she was awarded the Young Investigator Award of the Society of Free Radical Research 2015. In 2017, she was appointed as a project leader at the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke. In 2023, she received the Catherine Pasquier Award from the SFRR-E, having joined the Society in 2013.

Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3199-0655

Vanja Pekovic-Vaughan

Dr Vanja Pekovic-Vaughan is a Senior Lecturer in Circadian Physiology in the Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences at the University of Liverpool (UoL), UK. She is currently an Academic Lead for Research & Impact for the Department of Musculoskeletal & Ageing Sciences and also serves on the Institutional Research Strategy Group and Ethics Committees. She gained a BSc (Hon) in Human Genetics (Leeds University, UK) and a PhD in Molecular & Cellular Biology of Ageing (Durham University, UK). She undertook postdoctoral training in several of the UK’s leading laboratories (Universities of Newcastle, Durham, Manchester, King’s College London) before being awarded a prestigious Welcome Trust Tenure-Track Fellowship at UoL, investigating the role of cellular ageing and redox signalling in age-related diseases and their temporal regulation by the circadian clock. Dr Pekovic-Vaughan has been an active member of SFRR-Europe society over the eight years, her group has received several best presentation prizes from the society, and she has organised a number of SFRR-E symposia serving as a symposium chair and a speaker.

Website: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/life-course-and-medical-sciences/staff/vanja-pekovic-vaughan/

Carmen Veith

Dr. Carmen Veith obtained her PhD in Cell Biology in 2019 from Maastricht University, in collaboration with the University of Vermont. Her doctoral research focused on the NOX4-dependent oxidation of SRC family kinases and its implications for new therapeutic strategies for pulmonary fibrosis. Following her PhD, Carmen joined the lab of Tobias Dick at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany, as a postdoctoral researcher. During her postdoctoral tenure, she investigated the molecular organization of NADPH Oxidase redox signaling complexes using H2O2-sensitive reporters and oxidative biosensors on the cell membrane. Since 2023, Carmen has been working as a Scientist at Calliditas in Geneva, Switzerland aiming to identifying NOX-regulated pathways and evaluating NOX inhibitors as therapeutic targets for rare diseases. Carmen has been the recipient of various awards and scholarships, including a NWO-Nutrim Graduate Fellowship, short-term fellowships from the Dutch Longfonds and the European Respiratory Society, as well as several travel awards. She served as the chair of the 2022 NOX Family NADPH Oxidase Gordon Research Seminar. In addition to her fascination by NOXes, Carmen is one of the founding members of the Early Career Researcher (ECR) subcommittee of SFRR-Europe, where she currently serves as chair (2022-2024).

Website: www.linkedin.com/in/carmen-veith