Jan Gojda

Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology, Postdoc Fellow
Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Research Interests

• Role of specific nutrients in insulin resistance development
• Intestinal microbiome/metabolome bridging nutrition and diabetes
• Cancer and its bi-directional association with insulin resistance, cancer cachexia

Academic Career

• Charles University, Prague
  • General medicine
  • Diabetes & Endocrinology consultant
  • Clinical Nutrition and Intensive care consultant
  • PhD in Physiology and Pathophysiology of Human
  • Head, Clinical Research Unit
• Travel Award Grant of ESPEN (2013, 2015)

Goals

Within EFSD Mentorship:

• To elaborate a common project and establish continuing research collaboration with Oxford Centre for Research on Diabetes and Endocrinology
• To get deeper insights in role of adipose tissue in cancer cachexia
• To get leadership, communication and fund raising skills

And beyond

• Building up of an international diabetes research network
• Shaping future diabetes research in the Czech Republic
• Facilitating transfer between diabetes research and policy making, raising awareness  of diabetes pandemics, implementing preventive and early diagnostic measures within