Annika Bergquist group

Annika Bergquist is a adjunct professor since 2013 and research group leader. She received her PhD from the Karolinska Institutet in 2001 with the thesis “Cholangiocarcinoma in PSC”. Her clinical work is being a consultant in Hepatology at the Karolinska University Hospital since 2007 taking care of patients with chronic liver diseases including PSC before liver transplantation. She is the Chair of the national research network for liver disease SWEHEP (www.swehep.se) and member of the steering committee of Internations PSC Study Group (IPSCSG). The research focus is on clinical studies and biomarkers in PSC.

Amanda has a Master of Science in Molecular Biology and her PhD-work focused on fat cell metabolism in lean and obese state. She did her postdoctoral training in a muscle physiology group developing a cell-based platform to screen for activators of PGC-1alpha1. Amanda works as a project coordinator in the group and is currently developing an eCRF for the PiSCATIN study. In her spare time Amanda enjoys running, yoga and vintage shopping. 

Aris is a consultant radiologist at Karolinska University hospital and has been Head of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Department at Huddinge since 2013. He is a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet since 2017 and his research focuses on standardization of MRI evaluation and validation of MRI as a diagnostic and prognostic tool in patients with PSC. 

Christina Villard is a MD working at the Department of Transplantation, Karolinska University Hospital. She finished her PhD in 2011, on gender differences in abdominal aortic aneurysms, while doing her surgeon specialization training at the Department of Vascular Surgery. Previous research has focused on colorectal liver metastases, as Christina has until recently been working as a surgeon at the Department of Cancer, Divison of Upper GI.

Erik von Seth was appointed specialist in internal medicine in 2019 and now in training for specialization in gastroenterology and hepatology. He defended his thesis in 2018 which focused on ERCP and diagnostic methods of cholangiocarcinoma in PSC. Erik is investigating cancer risk, new methods to improve detection of malignant and pre-malignant lesions in the biliary tree and immunological aspects of bile duct inflammation in PSC.

Ghada has a PhD in molecular genetics since 2018 (Carthage University, Tunisia). Driven by curiosity, she moved to explore molecular evolution as a computational biologist in Stockholm University. Now she redirected her skills to the exciting field of clinical research with focus on multiomics data analysis of PSC.

Ghada is an eager reader of science, psychology, history, politics and much more!

Lina is a MD specialized in gastroenterology. She finished her PhD in 2012 with main focus on IBD in PSC patients. She is currently training to be a transplant hepatologist at the department of transplantation and coordinating the PSC biobank. In her spare time she spends time with her children but dreams of writing more poetry. 

Martin finished his PhD in 2014 focused on autoantibodies in Rheumatoid arthritis (Toulouse, France). He is now studying immunology of liver diseases, with a specific interest in the pathophysiology and prognosis of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC). He likes cooking, practicing sports (karate, tennis, football) and is interested in art and music discovering.