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Karim R. Sultan, DVM
Department of the Science of Food of Animal Origin, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, PO Box 80.175, NL-3508 TD, Utrecht, The Netherlands K.R.Sultan@vvdo.vet.uu.nl

Karim R. Sultan studied veterinary medicine at the Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover in Germany from 1988 to 1993. He performed his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (Dr. med.vet.) dissertation work on complex organ culture systems of the liver (1994 to 1997) at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Konstanz, in collaboration with Professor Hartung, Hannover. He simultaneously ran a project on primary bovine adrenal cortex cell cultures, to be used for the analysis of steroid and protease secretion and their modulation by growth factors.

From 1998 to 2000, he investigated the cellular biology of trained and atrophied skeletal muscle, in the laboratory of Professor Dirk Pette at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Konstanz. In his present project, at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Utrecht, he explores cytokine-induced muscle wasting and the signalling pathways involved in this process. These studies are performed with permanent cell lines and primary cultures of skeletal muscle cells from the pig.