Liv Eidsmo

Liv Eidsmo

Principal Researcher | Docent
Visiting address: Cmm, L8:02, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, 17176 Stockholm
Postal address: K2 Medicin, Solna, K2 Reuma Eidsmo L, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • Associate professor and group leader at the Department of Medicine, Solna.
    Practicing clinician at Department of Dermatology at Karolinska University
    Hospital.
    2016 Marcus and Marianne Wallenberg Clinical Research Fellow
    2014 Ragnar Söderberg Fellowship
    2013 The Dermatology Prize, awarded by the Swedish Society of
    Dermato-Venerology (SSDV) and Novartis
    2010 The Psoriasis Prize, awarded by SSDV and MSD
    2009 Young Investigator Award, The Karolinska Institutet’s
    Foundation.
    2006 Elected as Honorary Speaker during the Karolinska Institutet's
    Official PhD Ceremonies.
    Graduated from medical school 1999 and defended my PhD in Immunobiology at
    Karolinska Instituet 2006. Postdoc in Frank Carbone's laboratory at Melbourne
    University in Australia 2007-09. Returned to Sweden to startup my own lab at
    CMM in parallell to starting my recidency in Dermatology at Karolinska
    University Hospital in 2010.

Research

  • The human skin forms a barrier to the external environment that is constantly
    exposed to colonizing microbiota, invasive pathogens, and allergens. The skin
    barrier is maintained by immune cells but these cells are also implicated in
    common inflammatory diseases. In healthy skin, we have defined functionally
    distinct subsets of tissue resient memory T (Trm) cells based on their
    expression of the integrin CD49a and we have characterised pathogenic Trm
    cells in vitiligo and psoriasis.
    Current studies in my laboratory aims to understand how human Trm cells are
    formed and how these cells impact on their immediate environment. Ultimately
    we want to normalise the Trm cell compartment in diseased skin.
    Group members: Elisa Martini and Iréne Gallais Sérézal (graduate
    students), Cajsa Classon (grad student with Susanne Nylén, MTC), Elena
    Hoffer (MSc candidate), Kerstin Bergh (lab engineer), Emma Wadman (research
    nurse), Helena Poska (research co-ordinator).

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Employments

  • Principal Researcher, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-2024

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2014
  • Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, 2006
  • University Medical Degree, Karolinska Institutet, 1999

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