Research groups and teams at the Department of Medicine, Solna
The department's research is mostly conducted within research groups, which in turn may contain one or more teams. The groups are linked to the eleven departments, which also correspond to our main research areas.
Cardiology
Research group Francesco Cosentino: Molecular cardiology.
Research group Lars Lund: Heart failure with reduced and preserved ejection fraction. Clinical and translational aspects.
-Team Savarese
Research group John Pernow: Endothelial dysfunction in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
- Lars Rydén: Diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
- Cecilia Linde: Heart failure: device research.
- Mai-Lis Hellénius: Cardiovascular prevention (focusing lifestyle).
Cardiovascular Medicine
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Research group Magnus Bäck: Translational Cardiology.
Research group Carolina Hagberg: Lipid handling in health and cardiometabolic disease.
- Team Ehrenborg: Autophagy and cardiovascular disease.
Research group Stephen Malin: Lipoproteins and the Immune System.
Research group Roland Nilsson: Cellular metabolism.
Research group Peder Olofsson: Pathophysiological mechanisms of cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases.
- Team Björck Molecular and epidemiological studies of ascending aortic aneurysms.
- Team Gigante: Cardiovascular epidemiology
- Team Gisterå: Immunology of atherosclerosis.
- Team Li: Atherothrombosis research.
- Team Maegdefessel: Molecular Vascular Medicine
- Team Olofsson: Inflammation neuroscience.
Research group Magdalena Paolino: Genes function and molecular bases of diseases.
Clinical Epidemiology
Division of Clinical Epidemiology (KEP)
Research group Johan Askling: Chronic Inflammatory Diseases.
- Team Elizabeth Arkema: Epidemiology of sarcoidosis and systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Team Johan Askling: Inflammatory arthritis team.
- Team Thomas Frisell: Clinical epidemiology of multiple sclerosis and inflammatory joint diseases.
- Team Marie Holmqvist: Rheumatic systemic diseases.
- Team Björn Pasternak: Pharmaco-epidemiology.
Research group Karin Ekström Smedby: Clinical Cancer Epidemiology.
- Team Sandra Eloranta: Late effects and cancer survivorship after diagnosis and treatment of aggressive lymphoma.
Research group Rickard Malmström: Clinical Pharmacology.
Research group Ola Olén: Inflammatory bowel diseases.
Research group Olof Stephansson: Reproductive, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology.
- Team Neda Razaz: The long-term consequence of maternal and neonatal morbidity.
Clinical Medicine
Research group Xu Dawei: Hematological and solid tumors
Dermatology and Venereology
Division of Dermatology and Venereology
Research group Maria Bradley: Atopic dermatitis.
Research group Kilian Eyerich.
Research group Ning Xu Landén: Skin wound healing.
-Team Parlak
Research group Jakob Wikström: Cutting edge translational research of common and rare skin disease.
Immunology and Allergy
Division of Immunology and Allergy
Research group Susanne Gabrielsson: Extracellular Vesicles in cancer and lung diseases.
Research group Karin Loré: Understanding mechanisms of vaccination.
-Team Kreslavskiy
Research group Gunnar Nilsson: Mast Cell Biology.
-Team Dahlin
Research group Anna Smed Sörensen: Respiratory and systemic immune responses in human pulmonary viral infection and inflammation.
Research group Eduardo Villablanca: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Infectious Diseases
Division of Infectious Diseases
Research group Adnane Achour: Structural and Biophysical Immunology.
Research group Kristina Broliden: Identifying molecular signals in the genital mucosa that determine susceptibility to sexually transmitted infections.
-Team Hanke
Research group Anna Färnert: Global infections.
- Team Christopher Sundling: Inflammation and immune regulation during infection.
Research group Pontus Nauclér: Targeted antibiotic therapy of patients with severe infections to improve clinical impact and reduce resistance.
Respiratory Medicine
Division of Respiratory Medicine
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) - Magnus Sköld
Proteomics applications - Åsa Wheelock
Rheumatology
Research group Helena Erlandsson Harris: Paediatric rheumatology/The role of HMGB1 in chronic inflammatory diseases.
Research group Carmen Gerlach: Diversity within the T cell response, T cell memory
Research group Charlotte Hedin: Luminal gastroenterology
Research group Per-Johan Jakobsson
- Team Alexanderson
- Team Jakobsson: Translational inflammation research.
- Team Réthi: Translational Arthritis Research.
- Team Padyukov: Genetics of autoimmune diseases.
- Team Parodis: Clinical and translational research within lupus and autoimmunity.
Research group Vivianne Malmström: Autoimmunity and adaptive immunity in rheumatic disease.
- Team Grönwall: B cells and autoantibodies in rheumatic disease.
Research group Michael Sundström: Early drug discovery research in chronic inflammatory diseases.
Research group Aleksandra Antovic: SLE/APS/Vasculitis group.
Research group Fredrik Wermeling: CRISPR-based drug target discovery in cancer and autoimmunity.
Research group Marie Wahren-Herlenius: Autoimmunity and cancer.