Elisa Heyrman

About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the division Clinical Physiology, Department Laboratory Medicine located at KI campus Flemingsberg.
BSc and MSc in Biomedical Science - Ghent University
PhD - Queen Mary University of London

My research focuses on immune cell characterisation of cancer and long covid patients who participated in exercise interventions.

I am part of the PREFERABLE consortium which established a multi-national clinical trial for cancer patients, studying the effect of exercise on their quality of life, as well as biological outcomes. The PREFERABLE study focuses on breast cancer patients and the assessment of fatigue and quality of life during and after a supervised 9-month exercise intervention. https://www.h2020preferable.eu/

Personal interests: exercise physiology, prevention and early detection of cancer, liquid biopsies using extracellular vesicles

Journal article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2019;10(1):3288
The generation and use of recombinant extracellular vesicles as biological reference material
Geeurickx E; Tulkens J; Dhondt B; Jan VD; Lippens L; Vergauwen G; Heyrmari E; De Sutter D; Gevaert K; Impens F; Miinalainen I; Van Bockstal P-J; De Beer T; Wauben MHM; Nolte-'t-Hoen ENM; Bloch K; Swinnen JV; van der Pol E; Nieuwland R; Braems G; Callewaert N; Mestdagh P; Vandesompele J; Denys H; Eyckerman S; De Wever O; Hendrix A

Conference publication: MEDICINE & SCIENCE IN SPORTS & EXERCISE. 2024;56(10S):1110
Exercise Induced Immune Modulation - Consequences For Tumor Progression
Rundqvist H; Heyrman E; Mandic M; Rullman E; Stromberg A
Conference publication: MEDICINE & SCIENCE IN SPORTS & EXERCISE. 2024;56(10):1092-1093
Exercise Induced Immune Modulation - Consequences For Tumor Progression
Rundqvist H; Heyrman E; Mandic M; Rullman E; Stromberg A

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2025

PhD, Oncolytic virotherapy, Development of a recombinant oncolytic Vaccinia virus encoding a SIRPα-Fc fusion protein to enhance innate antitumour immunity, Queen Mary University of London, 2023
MSc in Biomedical Science, Major cancer, Development and evaluation of a traceable reference material for extracellular vesicles in liquid biopsies, Ghent University, 2018
BSc in Biomedical Science, Biomedical Science, Ghent University, 2016