Designing a Synthetic Killer based on a Natural Template

Prof. Karl-Johan Malmberg (M.D. Ph.D) is a Specialist in Hematology with over 25 years of experience in NK cell research and cancer immunotherapy. He is the Director of a Norwegian Research Council Center of Excellence, The Precision Immunotherapy Alliance (PRIMA) and leads an international team of 20 scientists based in laboratories both at the University of Oslo, Norway and the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. He is also the Scientific Director of the Center for Advanced Cell and Gene Therapy (ACT) at Oslo University Hospital. The group focus on deciphering basic cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating NK cell function and seek to translate insights from these efforts in the design of novel approaches for NK-cell based cancer immunotherapy against cancer.