Professor Claudia Langenberg elected as member of Germany’s Leopoldina

Professor Claudia Langenberg

Individuals are selected to become Leopoldina members based on their outstanding contributions and discoveries they’ve made in their research field.

Founded in Germany in 1652, it is the oldest continuously existing academy of natural sciences and medicine in the world. Today, it has 1,700 members from all branches of science, who provide policymakers and members of the public with science-based advice on important topics for the future.

As well as being Director of PHURI, Claudia is a Professor of Computational Medicine at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité, and consultant of Public Health at the Department of Health and Social Care, and Barts Health NHS Trust.

Her team is focused on the genetic regulation of human metabolism and its effects on diverse disease to advance our understanding of the causes of a range of human conditions. Among other things, her work has transformed the use and integration of large-scale, high-resolution molecular and clinical data, to systematically characterise genetic effects across organs, tissues and cells.

Professor Langenberg is also a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization , a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and has been named in Research.com’s top 100 female scientists in the world since 2022.

Speaking on her election, Professor Langenberg said:

"I feel so privileged to receive this honour and acknowledgment of what we have achieved through team science across borders. As a German-British scientist working across institutions, I am incredibly grateful for the immense support I have received from Queen Mary, BIH and Charite, as well as our funders."

This recognition comes at a time when she's recently had papers published in Nature and Nature Medicine. Read more here:

• New tool helps to identify people at higher risk of obesity-related diseases
• Nature - Glycerol-driven TNAP activation in thermogenesis and mineralization