Ascending Investigator 2024
Martin Fredensborg Rath
The 24-hour interplay between neuroendocrine rhythms and circadian function of the brain
Professor
University of Copenhagen
The circadian system synchronizes essential body functions to 24h daily rhythms in light intensity and is important to human health. The circadian brain clock controls 24h rhythms throughout the brain, but the signaling mechanisms that ensure 24h synchrony between brain regions represent a knowledge gap. This project aims to establish how circadian release of the signaling molecule melatonin is regulated in hormone-producing cells of the brain, and how melatonin regulates 24h rhythms inside the brain.
