Nora Kory
Assistant Professor of Molecular Metabolism
Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Departments
Department of Molecular Metabolism
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Biography
Dr. Kory's research focuses on how cellular organelles including mitochondria - cellular powerhouses and biosynthetic factories - exchange metabolites with the rest of the cell while maintaining their unique chemical environment. Motivated by the consequences of altered metabolism and mitochondrial dysfunction on numerous diseases, Dr. Kory's overarching goals are to understand how alterations in mitochondrial transport influence aging and age-related diseases and to leverage this knowledge for therapeutic development. Her laboratory combines functional genomics, metabolite profiling, imaging, cell biology, and biochemistry approaches to address these questions at the molecular and physiological levels and uses transport proteins as tools to interrogate metabolic and signaling pathways to understand how mitochondria perform their roles in maintaining metabolic homeostasis.
Dr. Kory was born in Heidelberg, Germany. She received her BSc and MSc degrees in Chemistry and Biochemistry from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. During her PhD at Yale University, she focused on mechanisms of how cells store fat. Her research identified factors that determine the lipid droplet protein composition. During her postdoctoral studies at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Dr. Kory discovered elusive transport proteins responsible for bringing critical metabolites into mitochondria. Dr. Kory is the recipient of Pathway to Independence and R35 Maximizing Investigators' Research Awards from the National Institutes of Health, and a Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award.
