Pamela Nono Nankam began her academic journey with a Bachelor and Master of Sciences in Animal Physiology at the University of Dschang in Cameroon. Subsequently, she was awarded the NRF-TWAS fellowship to pursue her PhD in the Department of Exercise Science and Sport Medicine at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She moved to Germany at the Faculty of Medicine, of the University of Leipzig towards the end of her PhD studies as she was awarded a DAAD research grant to complete her PhD program. In 2021, she joined Matthias Blüher´s research group at the Helmholtz Institute for Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research (HI-MAG) where she is currently pursuing her postdoctoral research.

Pamela´s current research focus is aiming to a better understanding of human disease mechanisms related to adipose tissue dysfunction. She currently works on adipose tissue function characterization in lipedema and identification of circulating disease biomarkers. Her work has been recognized by the first research award of the German Lipedema Association 2023 and is funded by a grant from the Lipedema Foundation in the USA. She also leads the studies in single cell/nuclei investigations of adipose tissue in humans with a wide range of fat mass and fat distribution.

Clinical Obesity Research, Adipose tissue biology, Mechanisms of fat distribution, Lipedema, Single-Cell RNA Sequencing