Katrien De Bock
Professor
Department of Health Sciences and Technology
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Katrien De Bock is professor for Exercise and Health and a member of the Institute for Human movement Sciences and Sport at ETH Zürich. She received a PhD in rehabilitation sciences in 2007 from the KU Leuven for her work on the metabolic adaptations to exercise in the fasted state. Thereafter, she joined the Vesalius Research Center (VIB, Belgium) under the directorship of Prof. Peter Carmeliet, where she has been investigating the metabolic characteristics of endothelial cells as a novel treatment target for anti-angiogenic therapy (2007-2013). After a short intensive research stay in the lab of Prof. Julian Aragones (2014, AU Madrid, Spain) to study the role of the hypoxia sensing system in metabolism, she became assistant professor of Exercise Physiology in Leuven (Belgium). This position she soon left to take up the professorship for Exercise and Health at ETH, which is endowed by the Wilhelm Schulthess-Stiftung. Her lab will study the metabolic and molecular interaction between nutrient delivery (by blood vessels) and nutrient utilisation (by muscle), and its impact on health.
Research Interest
Health Sciences and Technology.
Publications
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Deletion or Inhibition of the Oxygen Sensor PHD1 Protects against Ischemic Stroke via Reprogramming of Neuronal Metabolism A. Quaegebeur, I. Segura, R. Schmieder, D. Verdegem, I. Decimo, F. Bifari, T. Dresselaers, G. Eelen, D. Ghosh, S.M. Davidson, S. Schoors, D. Broekaert, B. Cruys, K. Govaerts, C. De Legher, A. Bouché, L. Schoonjans, M.S. Ramer, G. Hung, G. Bossaert, D.W. Cleveland, U. Himmelreich, T. Voets, R. Lemmens, C.F. Bennett, W. Robberecht, Katrien De Bock, M. Dewerchin, B. Ghesquière, S.M. Fendt and P. Carmeliet Cell Metabolism, 23 (2): 280-291, Cambridge, MA: Cell Press, 2016.
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Premorbid obesity, but not nutrition, prevents critical illness-induced muscle wasting and weakness Chloë Goossens, Mirna Bastos Marques, Sarah Derde, Sarah Vander Perre, Thomas Dufour, Steven E. Thiessen, Fabian Güiza, Thomas Janssens, Greet Hermans, Ilse Vanhorebeek, Katrien De Bock, Greet Van den Berghe and Lies Langouche Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 8 (1): 89-101, Chichester: Wiley, 2017.
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Intake of a Ketone Ester Drink during Recovery from Exercise Promotes mTORC1 Signaling but Not Glycogen Resynthesis in Human Muscle Tijs Vandoorne, Stefan De Smet, Monique Ramaekers, Ruud Van Thienen, Katrien De Bock, Kieran Clarke and Peter J.L. Hespel Frontiers in physiology, 8: 310, Lausanne: Frontiers Research Foundation, 2017.
