Biography:
Julia V. Gerasimenko is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK. She completed her PhD at the Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kiev, Ukraine in 1996. Her work has primarily been directed towards elucidating the molecular mechanisms initiating the enigmatic disease Acute Pancreatitis (~20000 admissions to hospital and ~1000 deaths per year in the UK alone). There is currently no treatment for this disease, but Julia’s work has opened up new possibilities for rational treatment. She has published 46 research papers on the disease mechanism in competitive peer-review journals, including Cell, PNAS, Journal of Physiology, Journal of Cell Science and Current Biology. Julia V. Gerasimenko is a Member of Faculty of 1000 (Gastro-intestinal Physiology), The Physiological Society (UK) and the European Calcium Society.
