Kim Ekroos

Kim Ekroos currently heads the bioanalytics division at Zora Biosciences in Espoo (Finland). He holds a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Dresden (Germany) and has conducted research in the group of Professor Kai Simons and Dr. Andrej Shevchenko at the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. Dr. Ekroos has also worked at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg (Germany). He has made major contributions to the advancement of basic research on...See more

Kim Ekroos currently heads the bioanalytics division at Zora Biosciences in Espoo (Finland). He holds a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Dresden (Germany) and has conducted research in the group of Professor Kai Simons and Dr. Andrej Shevchenko at the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. Dr. Ekroos has also worked at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg (Germany). He has made major contributions to the advancement of basic research on lipids and their study with advanced mass spectroscopy methods and software tools. In addition, he has pharmaceutical industry experience from Astra Zeneca where he spent three years successfully developing and utilizing high-throughput molecular lipidomics methods. Today he is focusing on applied molecular lipidomics for unscrambling the mechanistic details by which alterations in tissue-specific lipid metabolism are directly linked to the etiology of lipid-mediated disorders for the benefit of basic science, drug target and lipid biomarker discovery, and development of clinical diagnostics. See less