Karolina Sulek

Imagine a life with disease, where you need to control your lifestyle at every step. Medication, namely insulin injections, glucose levels testing, and proper diet is a must for the everyday disease management. This is diabetes. Now add to this equation chronic pain in your legs and arms, possibility of amputation or even death. This is diabetic neuropathy. For unknown reasons to scientists, significant proportion of people struggling with blood glucose management develop this condition, where damaged nerves lead to chronic pain in their limbs. Steno Diabetes Centers provide support to people affected by diabetes. My project merges knowledge and skills from clinical and technological advancements in the pioneering sector to provide better diagnostics for patients affected by diabetic neuropathy. With this project I aim to personalize diabetic care using top-drawer modern technology within analytical chemistry and IT in search for novel biomarkers of neuropathy.