Katja Lakota
Assistant Professor Katja Lakota, MPharm, Ph.D., received her doctorate in Biomedicine in 2014 at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana. She is a senior scientist at the Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia. As a Fulbright scholar, she spent a research year in the laboratory of Professor John Varga at Northwestern University, Chicago, studying the role of adiponectin anti-fibrotic signaling in fibroblasts. She investigated mechanisms leading to fibrosis development in systemic sclerosis in a postdoctoral fellowship awarded in 2018 by Slovenian Research Agency. Dr. Lakota is an assistant professor at the University of Primorska, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, Slovenia, holding courses on structures of biological molecules and systems biology in human diseases in the undergraduate study program bioinformatics.