Meet the Volume Editors

Mojca Frank Bertoncelj, MD, Ph.D., is a group leader of the research team Protective Tissue Factors in Autoimmune Diseases at BioMed X Institute, Heidelberg, Germany, developing 3-D models of human synovium and exploring molecular mechanisms of resolution of inflammation in chronic inflammatory diseases. She holds a doctorate in Biomedicine at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, serves as a guest lecturer at the University of Primorska,

Slovenia and is a VTIS society mentor for young talents in life sciences. She is a winner of BioMed X's innovation boot camp and a recipient of the Walter-Siegenthaler Medaille in Silber for arthritis research. Before joining BioMed X, she was a junior group leader of the Integrative biology of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases team at the University Hospital Zurich/the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Assistant Professor Katja Lakota, MPharm, Ph.D., received her doctorate in Biomedicine in 2014 at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana. She is a senior scientist at the Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia. As a Fulbright scholar, she spent a research year in the laboratory of Professor John Varga at the Northwestern University, Chicago, studying the role of adiponectin anti-fibrotic signalling in fibro-

blasts. She investigated mechanisms leading to fibrosis development in systemic sclerosis in a postdoctoral fellowship awarded in 2018 by Slovenian Research Agency. Dr. Lakota is an assistant professor at the University of Primorska, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, Slovenia, holding courses on structures of biological molecules and systems biology in human diseases in the undergraduate study program bioinformatics.

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