Harald Lund

Harald Lund

Assistant Professor
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Postal address: C3 Fysiologi och farmakologi, C3 FyFa M Neuroimmunovaskulär biologi, 171 77 Stockholm

About me

  • I did my PhD at Karolinska Institutet with Bob Harris on microglial biology (2018). After a postdoc with Tony Yaksh at UC San Diego (2018-2019), I returned to Karolinska Institutet and joined Camilla Svensson's research group as postdoc (2020). Since 2024 I am Assistant Professor and team leader at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. We study the blood-nerve barrier during health and disease. 

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Grants

  • Swedish Research Council
    1 January 2025 - 31 December 2028
    The entire central and peripheral nervous systems (CNS and PNS) are shielded from potentially neurotoxic molecules in the circulation by the blood-brain and blood-nerve barriers. Dorsal root ganglia (DRG), which are collections of cell bodies of sensory neurons located alongside the spinal cord, are highly vascularized organs that lack a conventional blood-nerve barrier. As a consequence, the DRG experiences a continual influx of proteins and macromolecules from the blood, raising an important question: How is barrier integrity maintained to protect the DRG from potentially toxic molecules?This project aims to address that question by providing a map of the molecular and cellular interactions that regulate the blood-DRG barrier during homeostasis and how this system is dysregulated during disease. I will address these aims by using mouse models of chemotherapy and inflammation, combined with cutting-edge sequencing technologies and functional studies.I anticipate that this work will help design novel therapies for disorders of the sensory nervous system, in particular inflammatory neuropathies and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, two conditions leading to significant morbidity which currently lack effective therapies.

Employments

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 2024-2030

Degrees and Education

  • Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2018

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