Stephen Wilkie
Affiliated to Research
E-mail: stephen.wilkie@ki.se
Visiting address: Solnavägen 9, 9D, 17177 Stockholm
Postal address: C2 Medicinsk biokemi och biofysik, C2 Molekylär metabolism Larsson, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- Stephen is from Scotland, UK and has joined Nils-Göran Larsson’s group as a
post-doc where he will research the role of mitochondria in cancer.
Stephen is from Glasgow, Scotland and has joined Nils-Göran Larsson’s
group as a post-doc where he will research the role of mitochondria in
cancer. Some of his favourite things to do when not at work are wild camping,
canoeing and karaoke.
Stephen completed the MSc in Cancer Sciences at the University of Glasgow
which included a research project examining the role of the FOXO1 protein in
lymph node microenvironment signalling in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
(Supervised by Alison Michie, Paul O’Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre).
Following this, he completed his PhD as part of the Medical Research Council
doctoral training program in Precision Medicine which involved projects at
the University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh and the Karolinska
Institute (Supervised by Colin Selman, Nik Morton and Joanna Rorbach,
respectively). His PhD concerned the role of the gasotransmitter hydrogen
sulfide in the biology of ageing and investigated this molecule in the
context of dietary restriction, Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome and
dysregulated RNA polymerase III activity.
Research
- Mitochondria are at the centre of cellular metabolism and have profound
influence over cell death and signalling. As such is it unsurprising that
aberrant mitochondrial processes can result in the initiation, growth and
metastasis of many cancers. My research in the Larsson lab aims to better
understand the precise mitochondrial processes that influence Kras-driven
non-small cell lung cancer,
Employments
- Affiliated to Research, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, 2024-2024
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2024