Mikael Rydén
Principal investigator MD, PhD, Professor, senior consultant and head of Endocrinology Unit, Dep of Medicine, Huddinge, KI.
Mikael is expert in clinical adipose tissue research and functional phenotyping of human adipocytes.
Omar Hmeadi
PhD
KI, Dep of Med
Postdoctoral fellow conducting research on the proteomes of adipocyte organelles.
Thais De Castro Barbosa
PhD, Senior Research TechnicianKI, Dep of Med
Expert in cell culture work including cell-line models and primary cultures of human skeletal muscle and adipocytes. Currently engaged in adipocyte spheroid development and optimization from several human cell types.
Salwan Maqdasy
MD, PhDKI, Dep of Med
Specialist in Endocrinology trained in France where he also obtained his PhD, currently employed as a post-doctoral fellow focusing on functional bioenergetic analyses of human adipocyte.
Jiawei Zhong
PhD StudentKI, Dep of Med
PhD student dissecting the gene regulatory networks operating in white adipose using spatial transcriptomics.
Alison Ludzski
PhDKI, Dep of Med
Postdoctoral fellow working with high-throughput functional screens of human adipocytes.
Lucas Massier
PhDKI, Dep of Med
Postdoctoral fellow who develops gene editing tools for human adipocytes (CRISPR, Transfection, Lentivirus) and adipocyte spheroids. Vast experience in gut microbiome studies & analysis of related next-generation sequencing data as well as adipose tissue genetics (e.g. GWAS analysis).
Na Wang
MD, PhD, Senior Research TechnicianKI, Dep of Med
Recently recruited to the Rydén & Mejhert group, works with functional phenotyping of human adipose tissue.
Other labs
Niklas Mejhert
PhDKI, Dep of Med
After a 5 year post-doc at Harvard (Bob Farese/Tobi Walther) returned to Sweden to co-lead the research group with Professor Mikael Rydén. Expert in adipocyte and LD biology as well as mechanistic studies of adipocytes.
Volker Lauschke
Associate Professor in Personalized Medicine and Drug DevelopmentDirector of the Micro- and Nanoengineering Facility
CEO of HepaPredict AB
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology (FyFa)
My lab is specialized in primary human tissue engineering, particularly of organotypic 3D models of human liver, pancreas, skeletal muscle and adipose tissue. To this end, we combine expertise in cell biology, systems and network analytics and microfluidics to develop models of tissue function and crosstalk in health and disease. Within SPHERES, we contribute with the development, characterization and benchmarking of human spheroid models from SVF.
