Kirsty Spalding, PhD
Kirsty Spalding’s research focuses on properties of human adipose tissue, with particular attention to adipocyte biology. Basic functions, such as adipocyte lipid and cell turnover, fat cell responses to obesity and hyperinsulinemia and cellular heterogeneity are investigated. Understanding the cell biology and heterogeneity of adipocytes in human adipose tissue, with the ultimate aim of understanding their contribution to health and pathology, are a major focus of the group. Recognition for her work includes being recipient of an ERC Young Investigator award, Vallee Foundation Young Investigator Award, Fernströms prize in Medicine, Novo Nordisk Excellence award, Marie Curie Outgoing Fellowship award, Sven and Ebba Hagberg prize for medicine and Wallenberg Scholar.
Dr Spalding received her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Western Australia in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology. Following an Ambassadorial Academic Scholarship to Sweden, Dr Spalding completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, where she is currently Professor of Adipocyte Biology.