Rong Ma
E-mail: rong.ma@ki.se
Visiting address: Solnavägen 9, 9B, 17177 Stockholm
Postal address: C2 Medicinsk biokemi och biofysik, C2 MSB Högberg, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
I'm an incoming Assistant Professor at Karolinska Institutet in the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics. My lab will launch in February 2027. I work at the interface of mechanobiology and immunology, building molecular tools to map the piconewton forces that immune cells apply through their receptors, and using them to reveal how those forces shape immune recognition and activation.
Selected publications
- Journal article: SCIENCE ADVANCES. 2026;12(35):eaeb8946Ma R; Garcia KC; Cui B; Covert MW
- Journal article: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 2025;147(40):36097-36104Ma R; Abdul Rahman MHB; Beusch CM; Deal BR; Gordon DE; Salaita K
- Journal article: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 2024;146(11):7233-7242Rogers J; Ma R; Foote A; Hu Y; Salaita K
- Journal article: NATURE CHEMISTRY. 2024;16(2):229-238Deal BR; Ma R; Narum S; Ogasawara H; Duan Y; Kindt JT; Salaita K
- Journal article: NATURE METHODS. 2023;20(11):1666-1671Ma R; Rashid SA; Velusamy A; Deal BR; Chen W; Petrich B; Li R; Salaita K
- Book chapter: MATERIAL-BASED MECHANOBIOLOGY: BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE SERIES. 2022;p. 44-63Ma R; Deal BR; Salaita K
- Journal article: ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION. 2021;60(33):18044-18050Hu Y; Ma VP-Y; Ma R; Chen W; Duan Y; Glazier R; Petrich BG; Li R; Salaita K
- Journal article: NATURE METHODS. 2020;17(10):1018-1024Brockman JM; Su H; Blanchard AT; Duan Y; Meyer T; Quach ME; Glazier R; Bazrafshan A; Bender RL; Kellner AV; Ogasawara H; Ma R; Schueder F; Petrich BG; Jungmann R; Li R; Mattheyses AL; Ke Y; Salaita K
- Journal article: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 2020;142(21):9653-9660Deal BR; Ma R; Ma VP-Y; Su H; Kindt JT; Salaita K
- Journal article: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2019;116(34):16949-16954Ma R; Kellner AV; Ma VP-Y; Su H; Deal BR; Brockman JM; Salaita K
All other publications
- Preprint: BIORXIV. 2026Liu LD; Shin SW; Joslin K; Wang C; Pai J; Ma R; Xiang X; Clark IC; Garcia KC