Elisa Heyrman

Postdoctoral Researcher
Visiting address: Nobels väg 7, 17165 Solna
Postal address: H5 Laboratoriemedicin, H5 Klinisk Fysiologi Gustafsson, 141 52 Huddinge
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About me

  • I am a postdoctoral researcher in the division Clinical Physiology, Department Laboratory Medicin located at KI campus Flemingsberg. 

Research

  • 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 assesment 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

Employments

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

Degrees and Education

  • 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

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