Arwen Stikvoort

Arwen Stikvoort

Assistant Professor
Visiting address: NEO Medicinaren 25, HERM plan 7, Hälsovägen 7C (lastkaj), 14157 Huddinge
Postal address: H7 Medicin, Huddinge, H7 Hematologi Uhlin, 171 77 Stockholm

About me

  • Arwen received her Master’s degree in Bio-medical sciences from Leiden university, the Netherlands in 2012. Her Ph.D in Medicine was obtained at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden in 2017. During her Ph.D Arwen’s research focused on the development and prediction of graft-versus-host disease and long-term hematopoietic mixed chimerism post hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. During a first Post doc position, she worked on the development of chimeric antigen receptor natural killer (CAR-NK) cells for the treatment of multiple myeloma at the Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands.
    Arwen then joined Professor Michael Uhlin’s lab in 2020 to work on the development of bispecific antibodies, especially NK cells and γδ T cells, to treat leukemia patients. Additionally, she will be working with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes from human ovarian cancer patients with the aims to increase knowledge of the presence, phenotype and functionality of these T cells.

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Grants

  • CIMED
    1 January 2023 - 31 December 2025
  • Dr Åke Olssons stiftelse
    1 January 2022 - 31 December 2022

Employments

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, 2024-2026
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-2024
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2020-2022
  • Postdoctoral researcher, Hematology, Amsterdam UMC, 2018-2020

Degrees and Education

  • Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, 2017

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