Dr Yanislava Karusheva
Role: Clinician scientist and Resident doctor in Endocrinology and Diabetology
Institute: German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf,
Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, University Clinic Düsseldorf, Germany
Research & Interests: Dr Yanislava Karusheva undertook her medical training at Charite Berlin, Germany, and the Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria. Currently, she is a resident doctor at the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology at the University Clinic Düsseldorf and a clinician scientist at the Institute for Clinical Diabetology of the German Diabetes Center (DDZ) in Düsseldorf, Germany.
From April 2021 until June 2022 she worked as a clinical academic fellow at the Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and the Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, UK. Her interests include clinical nutrition and metabolism, insulin resistance, obesity treatment and deep metabolic phenotyping. In 2018, Dr Karusheva completed the EASD Robert Turner Course in Oxford. In 2021, she received the Hans Adolf Krebs Award of the German Nutrition Society for her work on branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) and their role in the development and progression of type 2 diabetes, the DDG Sponsorship Award of the German Diabetes Association and the Walter Benjamin Scholarship of the German Research Foundation for her fellowship in Cambridge.
Her most recent research focuses on the different roles of GDF15 and rare diseases. Her research further focuses on rare metabolic phenotypes and lipodystrophy.