Spotlight on Regenerative Medicine

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The best healing is performed by our stem cells. Now the researchers recruit the body's own health workers to build up new healthy organs.    

Illustration Anders Kjellberg

Stem cells will build our health

The researchers recruit the body's own health workers.
Cecilia Götherström

Unique stem cell brittle-bone study starts

Transplantation of stem cells into unborn babies with osteogenesis imperfecta.
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"We're close to a treatment now"

Outi Hovatta is an expert at cultivating embryonic stem cells.
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"We can make plasters for the heart"

Molly Stevens designs biomaterial that can repair the body.
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"We have a model of the brain"

Anna Falk uses iPS cells to study diseases in the brain.
Professor Sten Eirik Jacobsen. Foto: Bildmakarna

Normal and abnormal formation of blood cells

Stein Eirik Jacobsen is exploring the mechanisms and regulation of healthy blood formation and the causes of diseases of the blood, such as leukaemia.
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Trying to create recovery abilities

The salamander is a master at recreating parts of the body; lost limbs as well as parts of the heart and brain. András Simon wants to understand how it works.

Regenerative Medicine at Karolinska Institutet

Read more about Karolinska Institutet's research in Regenerative Medicine.
Regenerative Medicine
10 Dec 2015 by Kommunikationsavdelningen.