Pediatric Oncology and Pediatric Surgery
Pediatric oncology is a constellation of interdisciplinary research groups that are conducting laboratory, clinical, survivorship and healthcare research with the common goal to improve the survival, quality of life, care and treatment of children and adolescents with cancer or hematological diseases. Education is also performed at many academic levels, and we arrange courses and national and international meetings, more information.
Administration and core staff
- Anna Nilsson, Lecturer/senior physician, Head of Division,
- Désirée Gavhed, PhD, Research coordinator
- Anette Langebäck, PhD, Research Specialist
- Ida Hed Myrberg, BSc, Statistician
- Indranil Sinha, PhD, Bioinformatician
Research areas - Pediatric Oncology
- Translational research in childhood cancer. Research group leader: Nikolas Herold och Jan-Inge Henter. Independent researchers: Frida Holm and Shahrzad Shirazi Fard
- Childhood Neural Tumors. Research group leaders: Per Kogner, John Inge Johnsen and Malin Wickström, Team leader: Ninib Baryawno
- Leukaemia, Coagulation, Clinical Trials and Registry Studies. Research group leader: Mats Heyman, Team leader: Susanna Ranta
- Childhood Cancer Healthcare Research. Research goup leader: Pernilla Pergert, Team leaders: Emma Hovén, Ulrika Kreicbergs
- Injury and Repair in the Immature Brain. Research group leader: Klas Blomgren
- Infections and Immunity in the Immunocompromised Child. Research group leader: Anna Nilsson
- NORDFERTIL Research Lab Stockholm. Research group leader: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg
- Tumor Modelling and Experimental Therapies. Research group leader: Jakob Stenman
- Childhood Cancer Epidemiology Group. Research group leader: Päivi Lähteenmäki
Pediatric Surgery
The Pediatric Surgery Research Unit comprises two research groups; Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Urology.
The research activities range from basic studies on genetic and molecular mechanisms behind malformations and tissue engineering to clinical studies on long-term outcomes of children with malformations and epidemiological studies. The main goal is to provide high-quality care for children with malformations, including management of complications and impaired function up to adult age. The Unit is also involved in education at different levels.
Research area - Pediatric Surgery
- Gastrointestinal pediatric surgery, research leader: Tomas Wester
- Malformation genetics, research leader: Agneta Nordenskjöld
- Tissue engineering, research leader: Magdalena Fossum
Are you a student?
At our division we are welcoming students for different types of short term projects, for example Degree projects, Master thesis, Bachelor projects, ST-projects, research training etc. On this page we list current projects that would be suitable for short term work in our research groups.