Research projects

  • Immunogenetic studies of ME/CFS and autoimmune diseases with particular focus on HLA and KIR genes
  • Single cell profiling of immune cells in thymus to understand the establishment of self-tolerance and development of myasthenia gravis
  • Single immune cell phenotyping of blood and cerebrospinal fluid in ME/CFS and narcolepsy
  • Multiomic studies of immune cells with regards to disease activity and treatment response in rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune phenotypes
  • Exploring the phenotype of the immunological cells infiltrating the joint tissue and synovial fluid of the juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients by single cell technologies 
  • Characterizing extracellular vesicles and their protein cargo in immunological diseases
  • Revealing biomarkers in blood for autoimmune diseases and treatment response
  • Functional genomic studies of chronic low back pain patients with modic changes and response to antibiotic treatment