December 2025: Our lab received a very competitive Blue Sky from Cancer Research KI. This is a high-risk high-reward project exploring novel territories in target deconvolution using state-of-the-art proteomics technologies.
December 2025: Amir gave a talk at the MTC department retreat in Djuronäset.
December 2025: Our postdoc Mücahit Varlı received the Wenner-Gren postdoc grant.
November 2025: Our first Ph.D. student Xueyao Wang passed her half-time exam with flying colors. Proud moments.
November 2025: Aleksandra received a competitive KI travel grant to attend the Microbiome Metabolism and Metabolites: Discovery and Function in Health and Disease, conference in Banff, 2026.
October 2025: Our latest work on novel antibiotics and antibiotic resistance was covered by a short film and presented at Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademin, IVA. Film credits to IVA, Sam Sundberg and Tomas Johansson.
September 2025: Mücahit received a competitive KI travel grant to attend the AACR-KCA Joint Conference on Precision Medicine in Cancer, 2025.
Aleksandra pitching her poster “A microbiome-derived metabolite that kills cancer” at the XXII Cancer Research KI Retreat at Djurönäset, September 2025.
August 2025: Our new collaborative paper on using AI to design novel antibiotics against resistant bacteria is covered by BBC and many other news outlets.
May 2025: Amir receives a Novo Nordisk Foundation Excellence Emerging Investigator Grant within Endocrinology and Metabolism (KI news).
May 2025: Mücahit Varlı joined our lab as a postdoctoral fellow, welcome!
Aleksandra’s abstract on “The impact of bacterial metabolites on colon cancer progression” has been selected for an oral presentation at the Swedish Cancer Research Meeting 2025 in Malmö. Congratulations!
November 2024: We received a KIRI postdoc grant together with Dr. Paul Petrus to recruit a postdoctoral fellow to unravel the endocrine signals mediated by the liver’s circadian clock to other organs.
November 2024: We are supported by a Cancerfonden project grant for developing precision medicine targeting metabolic vulnerabilities.
October 2024: Hanna Hjärpsgård joined our lab as a Ph.D. student, welcome!
May 2024: Aleksandra Wielento joined our lab as a postdoctoral fellow, welcome.
April 2024: Xueyao Wang joined our lab as a Ph.D. student, welcome!
November 2023. Our lab was awarded the Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) starting grant in Medicine and Health.
June 2023. Amir was awarded an Ambizione Fellowship from Swiss National Science Foundation (11.6 million SEK).
December 2022. Amir was awarded a faculty funded assistant professor position from Karolinska Institutet.
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