About CBB
The Centre for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CBB) is a virtual centre located at the Karolinska Institutet’s (KI's) Campus Flemingsberg.
The Centre for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CBB) is a virtual centre located at the department of biosciences and nutrition at Karolinska Institutet’s (KI's) Campus Flemingsberg. The centre offers expertise and scientific networking opportunities to the pre-clinical and clinical research environment. Activities of the centre include mentoring for early-stage researchers (PhD students and postdocs), support for project planning and grant writing, as well as seminars and discussion groups around bioinformatics and biostatistics methods and their application to biomedical data.
Contact CBB
- E-mail: cbb@ki.se
- Visit our "open office* on Thursday afternoons in NEO floor 8, where CBB affiliated researchers are present to discuss your project on a drop-in basis.
- Join our he networking app Slack. Ask to join the Slack workspace "CBB Campus Flemingsberg".
History and relation to Clinicum
CBB is considered the Clinicum hub at Campus Flemingsberg. The Centre for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CBB) is in the startup phase since February 2021.
Relationship to KI core facilities
The centre keeps close relations with the existing KI core facilities and departments within the field. This includes close coordination to be able to refer requests appropriately to these core facilities. Redundancies of the services offered by existing KI core facilities and the services offered by CBB are kept a minimum.
Information meeting
CBB had a first information meeting on April 29th, 2021. A zoom recording from the meeting, as well as the presentation, can be found below.
Carsten Daub
Director CBBCarsten Daub is an Associate Professor (“Docent” in the Swedish academic system) and group leader for the Clinical Transcriptomics research group at the Department of Biosciences and Nutrition at Karolinska Institutet. His bioinformatics expertise includes analysis of transcriptomics and epigenomics datasets, genome annotation and gene regulation. Links: https://www.daublab.org/
Hannes Hagström
Co-director CBBHannes Hagström is a consultant in Hepatology at the Karolinska University Hospital. He is also an associate professor and group leader for Hannes Hagström group (https://ki.se/en/medh/hagstrom-group) at Karolinska Institutet. His research is focused on clinical and epidemiological studies of liver diseases.
Steering Group
A steering group has been appointed by Dean KI South Maria Eriksdotter.
Janne Johansson
Chairman CBB steering groupAnnika Bergquist
Member CBB steering groupMarie Evans
Member CBB steering groupJonas Fuxe
Member CBB steering groupAffiliated Researchers
Davide Valentini
StatisticianDavide is a PhD statistician with many years of experience in working with biological, epidemiological, genetic, and social data of different kind and in various contexts. During the last years his work has been focused on the analysis of immunological and survival data of patients after cell-therapy and allogeneic stem cell transplantation. His other main interest is education: teaching and mentoring students, and organizing seminars and workshops.
Ghada Nouairia
BioinformaticianGhada Nouairia is a computational biologist and a bioinformatician with experience in different computational methods (clustering, networks, phylogeny, etc.). She has also worked with a wide range of omics data including proteomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics and genomes.
Currently, her research is directed to clinical application for diagnosis and prognosis in oncology.
Henrike Häbel
StatisticianHenrike Häbel has a doctoral degree in mathematical statistics from Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg. Before joining Karolinska Institutet, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Natural Resources Institute Finland. As part of the Medical Statistics Unit (Medstat), Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME) and the Centre for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CBB), Henrike mainly works with statistical consultation and teaching. Her main tasks include data management, survival and regression analysis in epidemiologic and population-based studies. Her research and teaching interests are in biostatistics, statistical epidemiology, spatial statistics and image analysis. Henrike has software experience in R, STATA, SAS and SPSS.
Laura Vossen-Engblom
Statistician (currently on parental leave)Laura is a biostatistician at the Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge where her work involves data management, survival analysis and regression analysis of clinical trials and register-based studies. She works mainly in R and Stata, but is also familiar with SPSS, GraphPad and Statistica. For CBB, Laura mentors several (medical) PhD students and teaches biostatistics courses. Laura has a doctoral degree in biomedicine from Uppsala University, and a MSc and MEd (master in education) from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Rickard Strandberg
StatisticianRickard Strandberg has a PhD in Biostatistics. His main expertise is in regression modelling and prediction, including linear models, mixed effects models, Cox regression, and multi-state models. He has experience working with cohorts and register-based data.
As a researcher, Rickard currently works with clinical prediction models of liver disease as a member of the Hagström research group at Karolinska Institutet Huddinge.
Financial support
CBB receives financial support from CIMED Infrastructure funding and from Karolinska Institutet.