Kasparas Petkevicius
Kasparas Petkevicius is a biochemist specialising in phospholipids. He earned a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Bath in 2013. He then completed a Wellcome Trust PhD programme at the University of Cambridge in 2018, studying macrophage phospholipid metabolism in obesity. After a postdoctoral fellowship at AstraZeneca in Sweden, where he investigated novel proteins involved in phospholipid metabolism, in 2021 he advanced to the role of Associate Principal Scientist, focusing on metabolic disease drug discovery. In 2023, he joined the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit as a ‘Springboard to Independence’ fellow, leading a research group on mitochondrial phospholipid metabolism.
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