EMBO Member

Per-Olof Berggren

Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm | Sweden

EMBO 2014

Pancreatic islet cell signal transduction

Per-Olof Berggren is an expert within the field of pancreatic islet research and is performing pioneering work regarding the fundamental mechanisms regulating the stimulus-response coupling in the endocrine pancreas with seminal contributions within the fields of insulin secreting pancreatic beta-cell Ca2+ handling, phosphorylated inositol compounds and insulin receptor operated signaling.

Keywords: Diabetes / insulin / signal transduction / calcium signaling / islets

Subject area(s): Cellular Metabolism | Molecular Medicine | Signal Transduction