Saskia Weber-Stiehl

Saskia Weber-Stiehl is a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB) within Kiel University and affiliated with the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH). She works under the supervision of Felix Sommer in the Junior Research Group Functional Host-Microbiome Research.

Her research focuses on:

• Microbial modulation of glycolysis in the context of inflammation and cancer
• Therapeutic targeting of hexokinase in intestinal inflammation
• Functional host-microbiome interactions
• Immunometabolism in disease progression

She is supported by funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG), with collaborations spanning institutions like the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and the Universität zu Lübeck.