Avlant Nilsson
Assistant Professor
E-mail: avlant.nilsson@ki.se
Visiting address: SciLifeLab, Tomtebodavägen 23A, 17165 Stockholm
Postal address: C5 Cell- och molekylärbiologi, C5 CMB Nilsson, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB), Karolinska Institutet, Sweden 2023–PRES.
Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, US 2019–2023.
PhD, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 2014–2019.
M.S. Engineering Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 2012–2014.
B.S. Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 2009–2012.
Articles
- Article: CELL SYSTEMS. 2025;16(5):101260Perez CR; Garmilla A; Nilsson A; Baghdassarian HM; Gordon KS; Lima LG; Smith BE; Maus MV; Lauffenburger DA; Birnbaum ME
- Article: STAR PROTOCOLS. 2025;6(1):103573Meimetis N; Lauffenburger DA; Nilsson A
- Journal article: NPJ SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS. 2024;10(1):148Meimetis N; Pullen KM; Zhu DY; Nilsson A; Hoang TN; Magliacane S; Lauffenburger DA
- Article: ISCIENCE. 2024;27(4):109509Meimetis N; Lauffenburger DA; Nilsson A
- Article: NPJ SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS. 2024;10(1):13Meimetis N; Pullen KM; Zhu DY; Nilsson A; Hoang TN; Magliacane S; Lauffenburger DA
- Article: CELL REPORTS. 2023;42(4):112402Gunn BM; McNamara RP; Wood L; Taylor S; Devadhasan A; Guo W; Das J; Nilsson A; Shurtleff A; Dubey S; Eichberg M; Suscovich TJ; Saphire EO; Lauffenburger D; Coller B-A; Simon JK; Alter G
- Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2022;13(1):3069Nilsson A; Peters JM; Meimetis N; Bryson B; Lauffenburger DA
- Article: FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY. 2022;12:878920Vega PN; Nilsson A; Kumar MP; Niitsu H; Simmons AJ; Ro J; Wang J; Chen Z; Joughin BA; Li W; McKinley ET; Liu Q; Roland JT; Washington MK; Coffey RJ; Lauffenburger DA; Lau KS
- Article: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2020;117(19):10294-10304Nilsson A; Haanstra JR; Engqvist M; Gerding A; Bakker BM; Klingmueller U; Teusink B; Nielsen J
- Article: SCIENCE SIGNALING. 2020;13(624):eaaz1482Robinson JL; Kocabas P; Wang H; Cholley P-E; Cook D; Nilsson A; Anton M; Ferreira R; Domenzain I; Billa V; Limeta A; Hedin A; Gustafsson J; Kerkhoven EJ; Svensson LT; Palsson BO; Mardinoglu A; Hansson L; Uhlen M; Nielsen J
- Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2019;10(1):5072Nilsson A; Bjornson E; Flockhart M; Larsen FJ; Nielsen J
- Article: NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY. 2018;36(3):272-281Brunk E; Sahoo S; Zielinski DC; Altunkaya A; Drager A; Mih N; Gatto F; Nilsson A; Gonzalez GAP; Aurich MK; Prlic A; Sastry A; Danielsdottir AD; Heinken A; Noronha A; Rose PW; Burley SK; Fleming RMT; Nielsen J; Thiele I; Palsson BO
- Article: CELL SYSTEMS. 2017;5(6):538-541Nilsson A; Nielsen J; Palsson BO
- Article: METABOLIC ENGINEERING. 2017;43(Pt B):103-112Nilsson A; Nielsen J
- Article: MOLECULAR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY. 2017;13(8):935Sanchez BJ; Zhang C; Nilsson A; Lahtvee P-J; Kerkhoven EJ; Nielsen J
- Article: NPJ SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS. 2017;3:3Nilsson A; Mardinoglu A; Nielsen J
- Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2016;6:22264Nilsson A; Nielsen J
- Article: NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH. 2014;42(W1):W175-W181Garcia-Albornoz M; Thankaswamy-Kosalai S; Nilsson A; Varemo L; Nookaew I; Nielsen J
- Article: SOURCE CODE FOR BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE. 2014;9(1):17Pornputtapong N; Wanichthanarak K; Nilsson A; Nookaew I; Nielsen J
All other publications
- Preprint: COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY. 2025Nordenstorm O; Baghdassarian H; Lauffenburger DA; Nilsson A
- Review: NPJ PRECISION ONCOLOGY. 2025;9(1):46Nilsson A; Meimetis N; Lauffenburger DA
- Preprint: BIORXIV. 2024;BIORXIVPerez CR; Garmilla A; Nilsson A; Baghdassarian HM; Gordon KS; Lima LG; Smith BE; Maus MV; Lauffenburger DA; Birnbaum ME
- Preprint: BIORXIV. 2023Meimetis N; Lauffenburger D; Nilsson A
- Preprint: BIORXIV. 2023Meimetis N; Pullen K; Zhu D; Nilsson A; Hoang TN; Magliacane S; Lauffenburger D
- Preprint: ELSEVIER BV. 2023Meimetis N; Lauffenburger DA; Nilsson A
- Preprint: BIORXIV. 2021Nilsson A; Peters JM; Bryson B; Lauffenburger DA
- Editorial comment: TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES. 2018;43(6):395-397Nilsson A; Haanstra JR; Teusink B; Nielsen J
Grants
- DDLS Fellow in Precision Medicine & DiagnosticsKnut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation1 May 2024 - 30 April 2029
- Data driven modeling of the tumor microenvironmentThe Swedish Cancer Society1 January 2024 - 31 December 2026
- Deep learning models of cancer mechanismsThe Swedish Cancer Society1 July 2023 - 1 November 2024
- Deep learning the Immune SystemVetenskapsrådet1 January 2020 - 31 December 2022