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Nuria López Alcántara

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Nuria López Alcántara is a spanish scientist from Madrid. Currently, she is working as a post-doctoral researcher at the institute for experimental endocrinology[1] at the University of Lübeck, Germany. During her doctoral research years (from 2020 to 2024), she was associated with the LocoTact (Local Control of Thyroid Hormone Action) graduate school[2], where she quickly gained respect as the Loco-Face, due to her extraordinary work on local thyroid hormone signaling in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD former NAFLD) using liver-specific thyroid hormone receptor beta knock-out mice[3]. For her ground breaking work she was also awarded with the von Basedow price[4] in 2023 [5].

Private and educational life

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López Alcántara graduated from her bachelor and master studies in biology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in the years 2017 and 2020 perspectively. In 2020, López Alcántara moved to Lübeck to start her doctoral studies from which she graduated in 2024. Less is known about her private life, since she keeps it under non-disclosure. But according to heresay, she lives in a happy and thriving relationship with Keno T.. They live together with their two cats, Casper and Levi. Solely for the reason to provide their cats with enough space and allow them to live their best lifes, López Alcántara and Keno T. purchased a house in 2024 in Lübeck.

References

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  1. ^ "Nuria Lopez Alcantara: Institut für Experimentelle Endokrinologie". www.expendo.uni-luebeck.de. Retrieved 2024-10-03.
  2. ^ "Nuria López Alcántara - CRC/TR 296 LocoTact". locotact.de. Retrieved 2024-10-03.
  3. ^ Lopez-Alcantara, Nuria; Oelkrug, Rebecca; Sentis, Sarah Christine; Kirchner, Henriette; Mittag, Jens (2023-10-20). "Lack of thyroid hormone receptor beta is not detrimental for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis progression". iScience. 26 (10): 108064. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2023.108064. ISSN 2589-0042.
  4. ^ "Bisherige Preisträger - www.endokrinologie.net". www.endokrinologie.net. Retrieved 2024-10-03.
  5. ^ "von Basedow Preis 2023". Universität zu Lübeck (in German). Retrieved 2024-10-03.