I have an undergraduate education in Biomedicine from Lund University and a PhD from Karolinska Institutet in the filed of Hematopoietic and leukemic stem cell biology in the groups of Petter Woll and Sten Eirik Jacobsen. My main research interest has always been within the field of cancer but really grew specifically towards leukemia during my PhD.
I will partly be working on establishing patient derived xenograft models for various leukemias to study the effect of TCR T cells on primary cells as well as on a pipeline for large-scale production of TCRpMHC constructs.
Two obligatory questions!
1. What brought you to PRIMA?
During my PhD, I got the chance to collaborate closely with the Olweus group - we brought the leukemia and they brought the TCR T cells targeting the leukemia. From that I really got to see how potent these TCR T cells are and how they cannot only be used as therapeutic options for patients, but also as potent research tools to answer fundamental biological questions. I wanted to join PRIMA to learn more about these killer cells.
2. What are you passionate about?
I’m always on the look for new hobbies, but the ones that have been hanging around for the last couple of years is football (quite good), tennis (quite bad), golf (really bad) and photography (better than my parents at least).