Professor Anna Karlsson

My basic training in Chemistry was done att Linköping University, where I also began my PhD studies. During my education, I moved to the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Gothenburg and received my PhD in 1996. Since 2004 I hold a professorship in Experimental Rheumatology at the Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine.

My special research interest encompass how the inflammatory process is regulated, focusing on the function of phagocytizing white blood cells and their interaction with galectins, a group of endogenous lectins that appears to be partaking in many important biological processes, e.g., cell differentiation, cancer development, immune functions, and, inflammation.

Key Publications

Huamei Forsman; Ulrika Islander; Emil Andréasson; Annica Andersson; Karin Onnheim; Alexandra Karlström; Karin Sävman; Mattias Magnusson; Kelly Brown; Anna Karlsson (2011).
Galectin-3 aggravates joint inflammation and destruction in antigen-induced arthritis. 1529-0131, GUP 133744

Doverhag C, Poirier F, Hedtjärn M, Hagberg H, Karlsson A*,
Sävman K*
Galectin-3 contributes to neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. Neurobiology of Disease 38, 36-46 (2010)
*Equal contribution

Karlsson A, Follin P, Leffler H, Dahlgren C
Galectin-3 activates the NADPH-oxidase in exudated but not in peripheral blood neutrophils.
Blood 91, 3430-3438 (1998)