Katrine Bækby Graversen

Katrine Bækby Graversen serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, specializing in Preclinical Disease Biology. Her research bridges veterinary science and human pediatric health, focusing on infectious disease impacts on metabolic conditions.

Her primary research domains include Microbiology, Pediatric Epidemiology, and Endocrinology, with specific emphasis on Helicobacter pylori infection dynamics in children. Key interests encompass metabolic disorder pathogenesis, seroprevalence analysis, and infectious disease comorbidities in youth populations, leveraging population-based cohort methodologies.

Recent work centers on Danish pediatric cohorts, revealing significant associations between H. pylori seropositivity and hyperglycemia—but not obesity—through dual publications in 2024. This research, featured in BMC Medicine and medRxiv, establishes novel links between bacterial infections and glycemic dysregulation, suggesting potential infectious contributors to childhood metabolic conditions.