Dr. Pooja Jha
Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Regional Health – Europe
Dr. Pooja Jha is the Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Regional Health – Europe. Prior to this role, she worked at Nature Research in Berlin as an editor of Nature Metabolism and contributed to the launch of the journal since 2018. Pooja has a BSc degree in Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, and a MSc degree in Medical Molecular Biology and Human Genetics from India. She obtained her PhD in Molecular Medicine at the Medical University of Graz (Austria) where she investigated the role of adipose tissue and liver cross-talk in NAFLD progression. This was followed by her postdoctoral research in computational genetics, mitochondrial supercomplexes, ageing, and metabolic diseases at EPFL (Switzerland).