Divisions at MTC

The Department of Microbiology, Tumor, and Cell Biology comprises researchers working in different divisions in various areas of immunology, infection biology, and cell and tumor biology.

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Division of Tumor Biology

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Division of Tumor Biology Wilhelm Lab Angiogenesis, Cancer, Metabolic disease, Cardiovascular disease, Eye disease – Yihai Cao Group Neural differentiation as a strategy for neuroblastoma treatment – Marie Arsenian Henriksson Group Development of small molecules restoring the tumor suppression functions of p53 – Galina Selivanova Group Discovery and Elucidation of the mechanisms of Action of Tumour Selective Compunds – Sonia Lain Group

Division of Virology and Immunology

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Division of Virology and Immunology Regulation of Gene Expression during Viral Infection – Gerald McInerney Group Genetic basis for B and T cell recognition and function – Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam Group Inflammatory responses in cancer and autoimmunity – Mikael Karlsson's Group Immunodeficiency Diseases – Lisa Westerberg Group Benjamin Murrell

Division of Parasitology and Core Facilities

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Division of Parasitology and Core Facilities Susanne Nylén group BSL3 Biomedicum Core Facility Biomedicum Flow Cytometry Core Facility

Division of Clinical Genomics & Virology

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Division of Clinical Genomics & Virology HIV and enterovirus evolution and spread – Jan Albert Group Tobias Allander Group Clinical Genomics Stockholm

Division of SciLife

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Division of SciLife Genomic Science and RNA Biology – Vicent Pelechano group Quantitative Biology of the Nucleus – Magda Bienko Group Regulatory Transcriptomics – Kutter group

Division of Host-Microbe

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Division of Host-Microbe Velmurugesan Arulampalam Intracellular Mycobacterium Tuberculosis – Martin Rottenberg group

Division of Translational Microbiome Research and Pandemic Preparedness

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Division of Translational Microbiome Research and Pandemic Preparedness

The Division of Translational Microbiome Research and Pandemic Preparedness focus on the impact of the microbiome on human health and disease. Exploration of the human microbiome combined with diagnostics development and intervention are the main goals in our projects. Large-scale sequencing and diagnostics of SARS-Cov-2 during the pandemic has lead to a number of collaborations on pendemic preparedness related R&D projects currently performed at the division.

Division of Microbial Pathogenesis

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Division of Microbial Pathogenesis

The main research areas in Division of Microbial Pathogenesis are within infection biology, respiratory tract and invasive infections, host-bacterial interactions, pathogenesis, infection epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, new antimicrobials, vaccines, and nanoparticle science. Within the Birgitta Henriques- Normark research group there are four project groups headed by Edmund Loh, George Sotiriou, Erik Benson, and Birgitta Henriques-Normark.

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