Niklas Björkström
Professor/Specialist Physician | Docent
E-mail: niklas.bjorkstrom@ki.se
Telephone: +46852482912
Visiting address: Alfred Nobels allé 8, plan 7, 14152 Huddinge
Postal address: H7 Medicin, Huddinge, H7 CIM Björkström, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- Niklas Björkström is a research group leader at Center for Infectious Medicine, Karolinska Institutet and a physician at Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital. Björkström earned his medical and doctoral degrees at Karolinska Institutet. He performed postdoctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA, and have been a principal investigator at Karolinska Institutet since 2014. Björkström has authored >
- 100 articles within the fields of immunology, infection, and cancer. The main focus of his research is to understand the biology of human tissue-resident lymphocytes in health and disease with a particular focus on liver and bile duct disorders as well as on pregnancy. His research group is specialized in advanced immunological methods for analysis of rare populations of human immune cells.
Education
2016, Associate Professor in Immunology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
2013, Swedish Medical License, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
2011-2012, Postdoctoral Fellow, VRC, NIH, USA
2011, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
2010, MD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Academic honours, awards and prizes
2021 NovoNordisk Foundation Emerging Investigator
2020 Anders Jahre Award for Young Researchers
2020 ERC Starting Grant
2016 SSF Future Research Leader Award
2016 Wallenberg Academy Fellow Award
2015 United European Gastroenterology (UEG) Rising Star
2014 NovoNordisk Young Excellence Award for Young Researchers
2013 SSMFs Stora Anslag
2012 Sven Gards award for best thesis within virology at KI
2011 Jonas Söderquist scholarship for a young talented virology researcher
2010 Asklepios award for best publication 2010 by a young researcher
2008 Poster award, 38th Annual meeting of the SSI
2008 ISAC student award recipient
2006 The McKinsey Sweden award
Research
Our research group at the Department of medicine Huddinge, performs translational immunological research studying cytotoxic lymphocytes in human tissues. The main focus is to understand the biology of human tissue-resident lymphocytes in health and disease with a particular focus on liver and bile duct disorders as well as on pregnancy. We arespecialized in advanced immunological methods for analysis of rare populations of human immune cells.
Articles
- Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2024;15(1):7957
- Journal article: HEPATOLOGY. 2024
- Article: JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2024;230(2):e318-e326
- Journal article: NATURE IMMUNOLOGY. 2024;25(8):1474-1488
- Journal article: NATURE IMMUNOLOGY. 2024;25(7):1126-1128
- Article: HEPATOLOGY. 2024;80(1):202-222
- Journal article: JHEP REPORTS. 2024;6(6):101074
- Article: SCIENCE IMMUNOLOGY. 2024;9(94):eadj7168
- Article: GASTROENTEROLOGY. 2024;166(4):667-679
- Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2024;99(2):e13336
- Article: JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2024;212(3):389-396
- Article: PLOS ONE. 2024;19(5):e0294695
- Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2023;13(1):22590
- Article: SCIENCE IMMUNOLOGY. 2023;8(90):eadh0687
- Article: JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY. 2023;114(5):507-512
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY. 2023;90(2):e13738
- Article: NATURE METABOLISM. 2023;5(7):1188-1203
- Journal article: JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY. 2023;78:s229
- Article: RESPIRATORY RESEARCH. 2023;24(1):62
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2023;53(2):e2249990
- Article: FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY. 2023;14:1130370
- Article: FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY. 2023;14:1186097
- Article: FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY. 2023;13:1169537
- Article: JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2022;226(3):441-452
- Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2022;96(1):e13195
- Article: UNITED EUROPEAN GASTROENTEROLOGY JOURNAL. 2022;10(5):465-476
- Article: HEPATOLOGY. 2022;75(5):1154-1168
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY. 2022;192(4):629-641
- Article: CELL REPORTS. 2022;38(10):110503
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2022;52(3):472-483
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2022;52(3):503-510
- Article: MOLECULAR MEDICINE. 2022;28(1):20
- Article: FRONTIERS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY. 2022;13:856530
- Journal article: HPB. 2022;24:s455-s456
- Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2021;118:21163
- Article: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2021;118(40):e2109123118
- Article: LIVER INTERNATIONAL. 2021;41(9):2046-2058
- Article: CURRENT OPINION IN VIROLOGY. 2021;49:176-182
- Article: SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE. 2021;13(599):eabb3107
- Article: CELLS. 2021;10(6):1369
- Article: CELL REPORTS MEDICINE. 2021;2(3):100220
- Article: MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY. 2021;14(2):357-365
- Article: SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE. 2021;13(582):eabb0036
- Article: SCIENCE IMMUNOLOGY. 2021;6(56):eabb7800
- Article: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2021;118(6):e2018587118
- Article: ACTA OBSTETRICIA ET GYNECOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA. 2021;100(2):339-346
- Article: CLINICAL & TRANSLATIONAL IMMUNOLOGY. 2021;10(7):e1306
- Article: BMC GASTROENTEROLOGY. 2020;20(1):428
- Article: CELL. 2020;183(7):1946-1961.e15
- Article: GUT. 2020;69(12):2203-2213
- Article: HEPATOLOGY. 2020;72(4):1378-1393
- Article: CELL. 2020;183(1):158-168.e14
- Article: SCIENCE IMMUNOLOGY. 2020;5(51):eabe1670
- Article: SCIENCE IMMUNOLOGY. 2020;5(50):eabd6832
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY. 2020;46(5):804-810
- Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2020;11(1):2049
- Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2020;10(1):2081
- Article: METHODS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. 2020;2098:71-82
- Article: METHODS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. 2020;2164:55-63
- Article: CLINICAL & TRANSLATIONAL IMMUNOLOGY. 2020;9(12):e1224
- Article: JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2019;203(8):2210-2221
- Article: GASTROENTEROLOGY. 2019;157(4):1067-1080.e9
- Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2019;10(1):3897
- Article: CELL REPORTS. 2019;28(8):2124-2139.e6
- Article: JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY. 2019;71(2):301-312
- Article: LIVER INTERNATIONAL. 2019;39(6):1098-1108
- Article: JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. 2019;285(5):510-523
- Article: NATURE METABOLISM. 2019;1(4):445-459
- Article: FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY. 2019;10:2692
- Article: FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY. 2019;10:1255
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2018;48(12):1997-2004
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2018;48(9):1456-1469
- Article: JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY. 2018;69(3):584-593
- Article: GUT. 2018;67(8):1517-1524
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2018;48(8):1329-1335
- Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2018;9(1):2275
- Article: JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2018;217(10):1656-1666
- Article: JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY. 2018;68(3):421-430
- Article: PLOS GENETICS. 2018;14(1):e1007163
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2017;47(8):1280-1294
- Article: PLOS PATHOGENS. 2017;13(6):e1006462
- Article: MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY. 2017;10(2):322-331
- Article: FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY. 2017;8:765
- Article: FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY. 2017;8:525
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2016;46(9):2204-2210
- Article: ENDOSCOPY INTERNATIONAL OPEN. 2016;4(8):E901-E911
- Article: NATURE MEDICINE. 2016;22(6):614-623
- Article: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2016;113(7):E864-E873
- Article: HEPATOLOGY. 2015;62(4):1249-1259
- Article: JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2015;194(6):2467-2471
- Article: PLOS PATHOGENS. 2014;10(11):e1004521
- Article: CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2014;59(8):1130-1132
- Article: JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2014;209(9):1362-1373
- Article: VACCINE. 2014;32(6):717-724
- Article: PLOS ONE. 2014;9(8):e105375
- Article: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION. 2013;123(9):3889-3901
- Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY. 2013;48(6):719-728
- Article: PLOS PATHOGENS. 2013;9(3):e1003272
- Article: BLOOD. 2012;120(17):3455-3465
- Article: JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2012;205(9):1351-1362
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2012;42(2):447-457
- Article: JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2011;187(7):3546-3554
- Article: JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY. 2011;85(19):10252-10260
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2011;41(7):1913-1923
- Article: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE (JEM). 2011;208(1):13-21
- Article: PLOS ONE. 2011;6(11):e27664
- Article: BLOOD. 2010;116(19):3853-3864
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY. 2010;177(1):493-500
- Article: GASTROENTEROLOGY. 2010;138(5):1885-1U68
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2010;40(2):378-387
- Article: METHODS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. 2010;612:353-364
- Article: METHODS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. 2010;612:335-352
- Article: JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2009;183(10):6612-6618
- Article: IMMUNOTHERAPY. 2009;1(5):753-764
- Article: JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2008;181(9):6010-6019
- Article: JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2008;181(6):4219-4228
- Article: JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGICAL METHODS. 2008;330(1-2):64-74
- Article: CANCER RESEARCH. 2007;67(3):1317-1325
- Article: ARTHRITIS RESEARCH & THERAPY. 2007;9(5):R87
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All other publications
- Conference publication: ACTA OBSTETRICIA ET GYNECOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA. 2023;102:65
- Review: JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY. 2022;77(6):1657-1669
- Letter: THE LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2022;22(11):1538-1540
- Letter: THE LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2022;22(10):1421-1422
- Review: NATURE REVIEWS IMMUNOLOGY. 2022;22(2):112-123
- Corrigendum: NATURE METABOLISM. 2021;3(2):287
- Review: FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY. 2020;11:571166
- Review: TRENDS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM. 2020;31(1):3-12
- Review: LIVER INTERNATIONAL. 2019;39(Suppl 1):63-78
- Corrigendum: NATURE METABOLISM. 2019;1(4):497
- Letter: JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2018;218(11):1853-1854
- Other: CELL STRESS. 2018;2(8):216-218
- Review: FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY. 2018;9:2174
- Review: NATURE REVIEWS IMMUNOLOGY. 2016;16(5):310-320
- Review: CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY. 2016;163:52-59
- Editorial comment: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2015;45(7):2154-2157
- Editorial comment: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2014;44(7):2192-2196
- Review: IMMUNOLOGY. 2013;139(4):416-427
- Thesis / dissertation: 2011
- Review: TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY. 2010;31(11):401-406
- Published conference paper: CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, IMMUNOTHERAPY. 2008;57(10):1541-1552
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Employments
- Professor/Specialist Physician, Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-
Degrees and Education
- Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2016
- Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, 2011
- University Medical Degree, Karolinska Institutet, 2010
Supervisor
- Christine Zimmer
- Lena Berglin