Symposium Speaker

Holger Steinbrenner

Holger Steinbrenner was born in 1967 in Gotha (Thüringen, Germany). After studying biochemistry in Leipzig and Lyon, he worked at the German Diabetes Research Institute in Düsseldorf on autoantigens of type 1 diabetes mellitus. In 2002, he received his Ph.D. from the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. He is now a group leader at the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I at the Heinrich-Heine-University. His major research interests are on the regulation and function of selenoproteins, mainly seleno- protein P. His research on interactions between selenium and carbohydrate metabolism is supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

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