16/11/2023 15:00
Senate Hall
"Archiving Excellence in Research @WBU" is the topic of conversation that Professor Asllan Gjinovci will discuss today at Western Balkans University.
Asllan Gjinovci worked for 35 years at the Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism at the University of Geneva, before his employment at University College London in 2012 as a Senior Research Associate.
Since 2017 he has been seconded at the Francis Crick Institute. Prof. Gjinovci has contributed significantly to the technology of pancreatic perfusion to study drug effects on endocrine and exocrine pancreas secretion. He applied this technology to genetically modified animals, species, and other organs such as the liver, kidney, gut, and spleen.
He authored more than 50 high-profile research articles as a collaborator in global institutions including the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Oxford University, (Prof. Robin Offord); Joslin Clinic, Diabetes Center, Medical School, Harvard, (Prof. Gordon Weir) and several others at Universities in Tokyo, Lausanne, Barcelona, Zurich, Pisa, and Basel. He worked as a consultant for the California Biotechnology Institute, Mountainview; Eli Lilly, Hambourg, F.Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, and the CEED in Strasbourg.