Dr Katja Vogt
Lecturer in Medical Sciences
School of Medicine and Dentistry
Katja is passionate about fundamental sciences. She teaches on the MBBS program and undergraduate and postgraduate Biomedical Sciences as well as Physician Associate programmes at the School of Medicine. Her research concerns the host-pathogen interactions, with a focus on the host in acute and chronic infections as well as chronic inflammation.
Katja’s passion for discovery is centred on how the immune system interacts with pathogens leading to infectious disease. This attitude transpires from her research into her teaching.
She teaches fundamental aspect of cell biology and immunology in the MBBS program as well as on the PA programs at the University of Central Lancashire. Furthermore she is deputy head of the MRes of Medical Science and actively involved in delivering and supervising teaching in the Masters as well as the BSc in Medical sciences at the School of Medicine.
She takes an active leading role in multidisciplinary collaborative projects with researchers in her own School (Medicine), as well as with colleagues in other schools (Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Engineering , Sport and Health Sciences, and Community Health and Midwifery) as well as with external partners at the University of Sheffield and NHS Trusts (East Lancashire, Blackpool and Alder Hey).
Katja is also devoted to contributing to research more broadly as part of the management team in the THRIVE Research Centre and her active participation in other internal Research Centres. Katja has successfully attracted internal and external funds, is always open to collaboration, and the many other joys of academic life.
Katja joined the University of Central Lancashire in 2018 as a lecturer for medical sciences at the School of Medicine. After completing her PhD (2014) at the University of Sheffield, investigating the regulation of the JAK/STAT signalling pathway by endocytosis, she started working on molecular mechanism influencing the cytoskeleton. Focusing on the cytoskeleton she worked for a number of years on neutrophil biology and their role in host-pathogen interaction at the Medical School (Univ. of Sheffield). But Katja was not always a Cell biologist, as she studied biology with the main subject microbiology at the University of Greifswald (Germany) and Umeå (Sweden). She has used several animal models in her research, including fruit fly, zebrafish and mouse.
- PhD Biomedical Science, Sheffield University, 2014
- Diplom Biology (focus on Microbiology), University of Greifswald, Germany, 2009 (equivalent to M.Sc)
- ECR rising star 2019
- Neutrophil biology
- Cytoskeleton
- Sepsis
- Innate immune system
Katja’s passion for discovery is centred on how the immune system interacts with pathogens leading to infectious disease. At the fundamental level she has established several in vitro cell-based assays to investigate the mechanisms of microbial entry in host cells and their modulation by the cellular cytoskeleton. Her interests expand from early discovery research to translational initiatives, illustrated by a project she leads on the development of an early detection tool for inflammation and infection related pathophysiological conditions, including sepsis. In the context of the innate immune system she also has research lines connected to the human microflora and therapeutic nanoparticles. Amongst other projects in the pipeline she is designing one linked to severe neonatal infections. Since her recent arrival at the University of Central Lancashire, amongst her academic activities, Katja has been developing her research team, which consists on PhD and an MRes students, She takes an active leading role in multidisciplinary collaborative projects with researchers in her own School (Medicine), as well as with colleagues in other schools (Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Engineering , Sport and Health Sciences, and Community Health and Midwifery) as well as with external partners at the Univ. of Sheffield and NHS Trusts (East Lancashire, Blackpool and Alder Hey). Katja is also devoted to contributing to research more broadly as part of the management team, as a co-lead for the “BuildingBlocks” theme in the THRIVE Research Centre and her active participation in other internal Research Centres. Katja has successfully attracted internal and external funds, is always open to collaboration, and the many other joys of academic life.
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- THRIVE research centre
- C4Globe research centre
- SMART materials research centre
- DDD research centre
- Better prediction tools for late onset sepsis and necrotising enterocolitis in neonates
- Influence of Dynamin on the cytoskeleton in epithelial cells during infection
- Mechanism of neutrophil priming
- Research to Market – seed funding (2019) (Principal investigator) Univ. of Sheffield MSc Mol. Medicine Project Studentship (2017) (Principal investigator) British Lung Foundation BLF-Pump funding – 3 years (2016) (Co-investigator)
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