Petter Brodin
Professor/specialist physician
Research description
Our team is aiming to understand human immune system variation in health and disease, and understand the factors that shape human immune systems. We are also interested in defining better metrics of immune system health and develop methods for better immune system analyses in human patients.
As a physician at the department of pediatrics at the Karolinska University Hospital, I have a particular interest in understanding when and how human immune systems are shaped early in life, and the influences by environmental exposures such as the microbiome, infections, vaccines, nutritional components etc in this process.
We are firmly convinced that the way to understand human immune systems and their variation, it is essential that all system components are analyzed simultaneously and relationships between these taken into account. This have recently been made possible with the development of novel high-dimensional methods operating at single-cell resolution, such as Mass cytometry, mRNA-sequencing and integrative multiomics analyses.
To analyze human immune systems at the systems-level, we are developing novel experimental and computational methods.
More information about our work is available here: www.brodinlab.com
Education
M.D, 2010, Karolinska Institutet
Ph.D, Immunology, 2011, Karolinska Institutet
Postdoc, 2012-2013, Stanford University School of Medicine
Consultant, Pediatric immunology, 2019, Karolinska University Hospital
Professor, Pediatric immunology, 2021, Karolinska Institutet
Academic honours, awards and prizes
SSMF Consolidator award, 2022
Elected fellow, Henry Kunkel Society for human immunology, NYC, US, 2022.
Göran Gustavsson award, Swedish Royal Academy of Science, 2019
Wallenberg Academy Fellow, 2019
Jonas Söderquist Scholarship, 2019
EMBO Young Investigator, 2019
Member, Young Academy of Sweden, 2019
The Sven and Ebba-Christina Hagberg Prize, 2018
Wallenberg Clinical Fellow, 2017
ERC starting grant 2015
VR young researcher grant 2015
SSMF young researcher grant 2014
Wenner-Gren Fellow 2012
Prins Bertil's award, Sweden-America Foundation 2012
Mary Bevé award 2009