Department of Laboratory Medicine
At the Department of Laboratory Medicine, we study stem cell biology, neurobiology, glycobiology, cancer as well as inflammatory cardiovascular, hematologic, muscle and metabolic diseases. The aim is to understand the pathological mechanisms and to develop efficient diagnostic strategies and precision based therapies for the patients.
Our research is often translational in nature, i.e. having both basic scientific as well as clinical features and can move freely between these. Particularly well-represented research areas include cancer (solid tumours as well as hematological malignancies), metabolic, infectious, inflammatory, and cardiovascular diseases, stem cell and regenerative medicine, glycobiology as well as research into stroke and neuropsychiatric disorders.
The Department is also responsible for courses in pathology, clinical chemistry and genetics at the medical and odontological programmes, and participates in several other courses arranged by the Institute of Biomedicine.
Research groups at the department
Frida Abel
Genomic studies of neural tumors
Levent Akyürek
Clinical lung cancer research and biology of filamins
Mattias Andersson
Research on the MYB oncogene in acute leukemias
Johan Botling
Precision diagnostics and tumor immunology in lung cancer
Helena Carén
Brain cancer stem cells and tumour epigenetics
Linda Fogelstrand
Measurable residual disease in acute myeloid leukemia
Huamei Forsman
G protein-coupled receptor function and anti-inflammatory drug development
Jan Holgersson
Glycan engineering of cells and proteins
Christina Jern
On the hemostatic and inflammatory pathways in ischemic stroke: an integrated clinical and experimental study
Martin Johansson
Pathology of renal cell carcinoma of the kidney
Pegah Johansson
Novel diagnostic methods to minimize side effects of radiation and chemotherapy in cancer patients
Meena Kanduri
Epigenetics of chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Göran Landberg
Tumour biology and endocrine treatment of breast cancer
Göran Larson
Glycans as mediators of infection and inflammation
Noora Neittaanmäki
Novel imaging technologies and artificial intelligence in digital pathology for improved cancer diagnostics
Anders Oldfors
Neuromuscular disorders
Lars Palmqvist
Molecular mechanisms in the development of acute myeloid leukemia
Göran Stenman
Genetics and pathology of salivary gland tumours
Fredrik Sterky
Mechanisms of synapse formation and neurodevelopmental diseases
Anders Ståhlberg
Tumor heterogeneity: Liquid biopsy and single-cell analysis
Åsa Torinsson Naluai
Mapping inflammation and metabolism in chronic disease
Pierre Åman
FET fusion oncoproteins and FET-SWI/SNF interactions
