Cheuk Yau (Jane) Luk

I joined the Department of Medicine-Solna in April 2025 as an SRP Diabetes Postdoctoral Fellow, supervised by Associate Professor Carolina Hagberg and Dr Oskar Kövamees. Prior to this, I graduated from University College London with MSci Pharmacology (first class honours) in 2019, and obtained a PhD funded by the British Heart Foundation in Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes at the University of Leeds in March 2024. After my PhD, I stayed at the University of Leeds as a postdoctoral researcher for a year to finish my work studying the paracrine role of endothelial IGF-1 receptor in adipose and intestine adaptation in diet-induced obesity. The main part of my PhD work was published in Nature Communications in January 2025, titled ‘Paracrine role of endothelial IGF-1 receptor in depot-specific adipose tissue adaptation in male mice’.

Over the next two years, I will use a range of translational methods including myograph, transcriptomics and histology studies to study the differential role of perivascular and subcutaneous adipose tissue in mediating vascular dysfunction in mice and patients with coronary artery disease and type two diabetes.