Welcome!

We are a young research group at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, specializing in detailed analyses of cellular metabolism using modern measurement techniques and mathematical models. Our work aims for a deeper and more quantitative understanding of how various cell types in the human body process nutrients to harvest energy and synthesize macromolecules. In particular, we are interested in the metabolic derangements that occur in cancer cells, and in specialized modes metabolism unique to certain immune cell types.

We use a combination of large-scale data integration, mathematical models of metabolism, transcriptomics, mass-spectrometry based metabolite profiling, and cellular physiology. We are working in close collaboration with colleagues at Harvard University and the Broad Institute (Boston, USA) in several projects.

News

January 19th, 2012:

Roland Nilsson receives the Ingvar Carlsson Award from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research.

December 2011:

Awarded a Young Investigator Grant from the Swedish Research Council, in competition with > 500 applicants.

Join us!

We are always looking for outstanding individuals interested in graduate or postgraduate work in our lab. Please address correpondence to roland.nilsson@ki.se.


Roland Nilsson
Assistant Professor in Cellular Metabolism


Our research is generously funded by grants from:

Unit of Computational Medicine | Center for Molecular Medicine | Dept. of Medicine (Solna), Karolinska Institutet