On my way to the European Lipoprotein Club Meeting in Tutzing!
Simon Pfisterer
@spfisterer.bsky.social
Science and technology shape the world. Hope I can help along the path with my research group www.pfistererlab.org and as a founder of www.moncytehealth.com a novel precision medicine company.
It has been an amazing #EASCongress2026 in Athens. With Poster presentations and our first booth for MONCYTE Health! Great to start new collaborations, meeting friends and colleagues! @eassociety.bsky.social
“My LDL is lower than my standards” #EAScongress2026 Today, we held our European Lipoprotein Club Spring Meeting in Athens 🇬🇷. Next, year we will be celebrating our 50th anniversary - save the date Sept 5-8, 2027!
(Academic) pedigree is a powerful facilitator of your career. I was the only person in my family with a high school degree, and now I know the impact of having educated parents and an academic (and professional) network.
I am deeply honoured to welcome Prof. Kausik Ray from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social as advisor to MONCYTE Health! He is a world leading expert in cardiovascular prevention and lipidology and his work has significantly shaped the understanding and management of lipid disorders and CVD risk. #CVD
Sports at below -10°C: Skating, forest walks and running on the sea...
EU #FH-Early project aims to redefine familial hypercholesterolemia diagnosis and care. We had a very productive general assembly with important discussions on how to move forward! Thank you organizers! @fpinto1960.bsky.social #FH #cholesterol #CVD @magdalenadaccord.bsky.social
Stuck on a bridge in Suvisaaristo! Merry Christmas 🎄
Big congratulations to Majharul who defended his PhD thesis last Friday! Amazing job! @helsinki.fi #cholesterol #cvd #PerMed-FH
Back from #AHA2025 scientific sessions! Two poster presentations and discussing the future of cardiovascular disease prevention with colleagues and partners. @ahajournals.bsky.social @eassociety.bsky.social #cholesterol, #CVDprevention.
Adipogenin promotes the development of lipid droplets by binding a dodecameric seipin complex | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Adipogenin promotes the development of lipid droplets by binding a dodecameric seipin complex
The microprotein adipogenin (Adig) is predominantly expressed in adipose tissues. Here, we found that Adig interacts with seipin to form a stable, rigid complex. We present the structure of the seipin...
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It is a great honour to be part of this study! Congratulations to Daniel Tabet, @fritzroth.bsky.social and the entire team!! This is a huge step forward regarding functional studies of LDLR! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @helsinki.fi @eassociety.bsky.social
The functional landscape of coding variation in the familial hypercholesterolemia gene LDLR
Variants in the familial hypercholesterolemia gene LDLR—the most important genetic driver of cardiovascular disease—can raise circulating low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol concentrations and i...
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Proud to share a preprint of our paper on how bridge-like lipid transport protein VPS13C senses lysosomal membrane tension in anticipation of membrane lesions to initiate net ER-to-lysosome lipid transfer for efficient lysosomal repair www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
VPS13C/PARK23 initiates lipid transfer and membrane remodeling for efficient lysosomal repair
Perturbations in lysosome integrity are tightly linked to neurological disorders and ageing, but the underlying pathogenic mechanisms are incompletely understood. Using an unbiased proteomic approach,...
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At MONCYTE Health we are looking for a laboratory technician. Are you ready to join a vibrant and exciting team, pushing boundaries in precision medicine? Please apply! More information can be found here: moncytehealth.com/open-positio... The closing date for applications is: 30.11.2025
Open position: on-site laboratory technician - MONCYTE Health
Job description Company Description MONCYTE Health, established in 2024, is an early-stage Finnish health technology company developing a novel solution that integrates cellular diagnostics with robot...
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We are recuiting two new Associate Professors here in Oxford Biochemistry. Come join us! Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! tinyurl.com/mr3m7bd3
🚨🚨🚨 We are launching the 2nd application round for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Program MemBioMed, offering cutting-edge training on exploring the complex behavior of cellular membranes & unlocking their therapeutic potential. Students can apply here: life.univ-cotedazur.eu/internationa...
The EU High-Level Event on cardiovascular health is happening right now at the European Parliament 🇪🇺. Patients, policymakers & experts are coming together to highlight why early screening for FH and Lp(a) must become a European priority.
Cycling to work refreshes my brain and improves cardiovascular health! It is also super beautiful if you work in #Helsinki @eassociety.bsky.social #cholesterol #cvd
The European Lipoprotein Club Meeting #ELC is special! Great to be back, meeting friends and discussing our latest data from www.moncytehealth.com! @eassociety.bsky.social @barteltlab.bsky.social
Come and work with us 5-year position available for a University Researcher in Bioimaging 1.11.2025-31.12.2030 abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
University Researcher in Bioimaging / Universitetsforskare med inriktning bioimaging, 1.11.2025-31.12.2030
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Join us for a special session in recognition of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH) Awareness Week. This webinar features the recorded session from EAS 2025 in Glasgow, highlighting key insights into FH diagnosis, treatment, and global strategies. Register here: eas.to/WebSep24Reg
We (with @nicolasdray.bsky.social @zenlabpasteur.bsky.social) are happy to release officially FishFeats, our #napari plugin to streamline 3D smFish/RNA quantification! 🎊 Available here: github.com/gletort/Fish... user documentation: gletort.github.io/FishFeats/
It was great to be there! A big thank you to all of those who made it possible!
European Society of Cardiology@escardio.bsky.social · last yr.More than 3,000 ESC Volunteers make possible everything the ESC does – from congresses guidelines and journals to data science, education, public health advocacy and more. Thank you for giving the global CV healthcare community, and patients, the gift of time. #ESCCongress #ESC75Years #ESCTV
It was great to present our latest data at #ESC Congress in #Madrid and to catch up with colleagues and friends at one of the most important cardiology conferences! Huge event with great science and clinical data + Madrid is a nice city! @eassociety.bsky.social #moncyte-health #cholesterol #CVD
It was very nice recording this podcast and talking about our research at @helsinki.fi and forming the startup company www.moncytehealth.com!
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European Atherosclerosis Society@eassociety.bsky.social · last yr.@spfisterer.bsky.social, was our guest in the latest episode of AtheroTalk. We talk about his academic journey, his move into biotech, and his vision for the future of precision medicine in atherosclerosis. 🎧 eas.to/ATHTalkE16S 🎧 eas.to/ATHTalkE16A 🎧 eas.to/ATHTalkE16Y
Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise
Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”
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