Congratulations to Kei Sakamoto who is currently Head of Diabetes at the Néstle Institute of Health Sciences in Lausanne, Switzerland. Kei has been promoted to full professor at the nearby École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he holds a joint appointment.
Kei was a postdoc in Dario Alessi's lab between 2003 and 2006 where he unravelled the role of LKB1 in activating AMPK in muscle tissues, before opening up his own independent laboratory at the MRC-PPU in 2006, where using elegant knock-in technology Kei was able to define the role that allosteric regulation of glycogen synthase by glucose-6-phosphate played in muscle and liver. In early 2012 Kei moved his lab to Lausanne where his laboratory is playing a leading role in defining roles that allosteric regulation of metabolic and signalling enzymes play.
Kei was a postdoc in Dario Alessi's lab between 2003 and 2006 where he unravelled the role of LKB1 in activating AMPK in muscle tissues, before opening up his own independent laboratory at the MRC-PPU in 2006, where using elegant knock-in technology Kei was able to define the role that allosteric regulation of glycogen synthase by glucose-6-phosphate played in muscle and liver. In early 2012 Kei moved his lab to Lausanne where his laboratory is playing a leading role in defining roles that allosteric regulation of metabolic and signalling enzymes play.