The invisible fortress: How the immune system shapes health and disease
The immune system is often described as a defense system, but in reality, it behaves less like a static shield and more like a dynamic network: continuously adapting to new challenges, from emerging infections to chronic disease. Recent years have made this especially clear, with advances in immunometabolism, host–pathogen biology, and immune-mediated disease reshaping how we understand protection and pathology.
Furthermore, treatment strategies have needed to become more personalized and strategies to deliver them more accessible.
Across KI NORD, these processes are studied from different perspectives, but rarely in dialogue. This session brings together researchers working across the departments to explore how the immune system detects, integrates, and responds to challenges in different contexts and how treatment is adapted to the individual.
A journey across the immune landscape
Block 1: Encounters and real-world immune variation
40 minutes
To be confirmed (Dept. of Global Public Health)
- Mats Lekander (Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience)
Neuroimmune interactions: the brain’s role in immune defence
- Nikolas Herold (Dept. of Women's and Children's Health)
Treatment resistance and immunotherapy in childhood cancer
- Hanna Jansson (Dept. of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics)
From hospital to home: how healthcare professionals co-create care across boundaries in infection treatment through IV antibiotics (IPAT–OPAT)
Block 2: Mechanisms, dysregulation, and intervention
40 minutes
- Vivianne Malmström (Dept. of Medicine, Solna)
T- and B-cells in individuals with a high risk for a future RA diagnosis – window of opportunity for new interventions?
- Sergiu Bogdan Catrina (Dept. of Molecular Medicine and Surgery)
Chronic inflammation and metabolic disease
- Charlotte Thålin (Dept. of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital)
Respiratory IgA: Molecular Blueprints for Next-Generation Mucosal Protection.
- Andreas Lundqvist (Dept. of Oncology-Pathology)
Stimulating the immune system: advances in cancer immunotherapy