Katja Pokrovskaja Tamm

Molecular biologist, PhD in Tumor biology and Docent at KI. Joined employment
as a Team leader and a coordinator at OnkPat.
Honored and passionate to be an environment and sustainable development
delegate at OnkPat (miljö- och hållbarhetsombud).
EDUCATION:
2011 Docent at KI
1999 PhD at the Department of Microbiology Tumor and Cell biology, Karolinska
institutet.

1983 M.Sc. in Molecular Genetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Main focus is to find novel drug targets to enable for a more precision-based anti-cancer therapy and novel therapeutic approaches to overcome therapy resistance to the drugs used in anti-cancer treatment.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Targeting autophagy and lysosomal degradation in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia 
Inhibition of autophagy and activation of IFN response

COLLABORATIONS

Sample collection of live-frozen primary cancer cells from patients with acute leukemia

Activation of immune response against leukemic blasts

PREVIOUS RESEARCH

Mechanisms of glucocorticoid-induced cell death in acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Autophagy in cancer and anti-cancer therapy
STAT3 as a target for anti-cancer therapy

Coordinator at Degree Project in Medicine

Supervisor of bachelor and master degree projects

Examiner at Biomedicine program
Principle and co-supervisor of PhD students