Niklas Björkström

Niklas Björkström

Professor/Specialist Physician | Docent
Telephone: +46852482912
Visiting address: Alfred Nobels allé 8, plan 7, 14152 Huddinge
Postal address: H7 Medicin, Huddinge, H7 CIM Björkström, 171 77 Stockholm
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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.

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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

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