Recipients Of CIMED Project Grants 2026-2028

We congratulate researchers at MedH who have been awarded CIMED project grants for the period 2026-2028.

The following researchers at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge have been awarded project grants from CIMED:

Annika Bergquist – Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) – Improvement of the prognosis by statin treatment and increased knowledge of the pathogenesis.

Andreas Björklund – FasI/IIprövningmedadaptivaNK-celler mot behandlings refraktärt myelodysplastiskt syndrom och akut myeloisk leukemi.

Niklas Björkström – Personalizing immunosuppression in organ transplantation via integration of spatial immunology.

Yenan Bryceson – Improving molecular diagnostics for children with severe inborn errors of immunity.

Rafael Ceña Diez – Approaching a clinical evaluation of a novel natural vaginal microbicide against HIV and sexually transmitted infections.

Emmanouil Charitakis – Assessment of the effect of catheter ablation on elderly population with atrial fibrillation; a randomized controlled study; The ACE-AF study.

Martin Cornillet – Deep proteomic trajectories in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis for the discovery of new mechanisms driving autoimmunity, liver fibrosis and bowel inflammation.

Hannes Hagström – Clinical and epidemiological projects to improve management of liver disease.

Eva Hellström-Lindberg – From identified molecular targets to improved outcome for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes.

Juha Kere – Prediktion och tidig diagnos av pre-eklampsi.

Andreas Lennartsson – Targeting resistance to Menin inhibitors in acute myeloid leukemia.

Agneta Månsson-Broberg – Genetic predisposition, new biomarkers and senescence footprint and their impact on cancer therapy-related cardiovascular dysfunction.

Anna Norrby-Teglund – Precision medicine in sepsis: mapping gene signatures to immune responses to enable tailored immunomodulatory therapy in sepsis.

Ghada Nouairia – Developing clinical tools for early detection and risk stratification of biliary tract cancers (BTC).

Thomas Poiret – Enhancing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) outcome by refining cell content and starting material quality.

Mikael Rydén – Clinical studies of insulin resistance in white adipose tissue-from adipose heterogeneity to precision medicine.

Peter Saliba Gustafsson – Dissecting the genomics and single-cell transcriptome of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver Disease: From molecular signatures to therapeutic targets.

Benedikt Strunz – A functional atlas of immunosuppression in blood and tissue.

Peter Svensson – Deciphering HIV-1 Reservoir Dynamics to Achieve ART-Free Long-Term Remission.

Anders Sönnerborg – HIV-1 latency and its reactivation in search for functional HIV-1 cure.

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