Prof. Niels Gregersen University of Aarhus, Denmark

Niels Gregersen is Professor of Molecular Medicine and Leader of the Research Unit for Molecular Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is recognized nationally and internationally for his research related to fatty acid oxidation defects. He pioneered the field in the middle of the 1970s by... read moredescribing the first case of medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. This working field has fostered an interest for the molecular pathogenesis of genetic diseases, where variant proteins misfolding may participate in the cellular pathology of the diseases.