Education
June 2015 - Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) in Nutritional Sciences, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Thesis: The impact of vitamin E on xenobiotic metabolism and hepatic lipid accumulation
November 2011 - Diploma in Nutritional Sciences (equivalent to M.Sc.), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Thesis: Development and partial validation of a high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC-ECD) method for the quantification of atorvastatin and metabolites.
Professional experience
January 2016 to date: Postdoctoral researcher at the National Institutes of Health, USA
December 2011 - December 2015: Docotoral student, Division Biofunctionality and Safety of Food, Institute of Biological Chemistry and Nutrition, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
September 2012 - November 2012: Guest researcher, Institute of Chemistry, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Awards and affiliations
2012 - Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service
Member of the Society of Nutrition and Food Science
Member of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Member of the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine
Publications
Original articles
Podszun, M. C., Jakobi, M., Birringer, M., Weiss, J. & Frank, J. (2016). The long chain α–tocopherol metabolite α-13’-COOH and γ-tocotrienol induce P-glycoprotein expression and activity by activation of the pregnane X receptor in the intestinal cell line LS 180. Mol Nutr Food Res (in press), IF 4.551.
Podszun, M. C., Grebenstein, N., Spruss, A., Schlueter, T., Kremoser, C., Bergheim, I., & Frank, J. (2014). Dietary α-tocopherol and atorvastatin reduce high-fat-induced lipid-accumulation and down-regulate CD36 protein in the liver of guinea pigs. J Nutr Biochem 25: 573-579, IF 4.592.
Podszun, M. C., Grebenstein, N., Hofmann, U., & Frank, J. (2013). High-dose supplementation with natural α-tocopherol does neither alter the pharmacodynamics of atorvastatin nor its phase I metabolism in guinea pigs. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 266: 452-458, IF 4.447.
Review articles
Podszun, M. C. & Frank, J. (2014) Vitamin E-drug interactions - molecular basis and clinical relevance. Nutr Res Rev 27: 215-231, IF 3.861.