Principal Investigator
Emma Börgeson, PhD, MSc
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Emma Börgeson, PhD, earned her doctorate in Medicine from University College Dublin in 2011. Subsequently, she completed a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC San Diego, where she explored the therapeutic potential of pro-resolving compounds in diabetes. In 2017, she established her laboratory at the University of Gothenburg through a prestigious tenure-track affiliation with the Wallenberg Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine. Her research focuses on various aspects of cardiometabolic disease, with a particular interest in inflammatory resolution. Dr. Börgeson is affiliated with the Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Since 2022, she has also been a tenured associate professor in molecular medicine at Aarhus University, Denmark.
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Staff and Post-Doctoral Fellows
Andras Harazin, PhD
Lab Manager
Aarhus University András Harazin is the lab manager for the Denmark branch of the Börgeson Lab, based at Aarhus University. He plays a key role in both the day-to-day operations of the laboratory and the coordination of the lab’s clinical studies. Dr. Harazin holds a PhD in Molecular Biology and brings extensive experience in academic research, having completed a postdoctoral fellowship prior to joining the Börgeson Lab. His scientific background spans both experimental and clinical research settings, making him well-equipped to oversee translational workflows that bridge laboratory and patient-facing studies. In addition to managing lab operations, Dr. Harazin serves as the primary clinical coordinator, facilitating collaboration with hospital partners, overseeing ethical approvals and patient recruitment, and ensuring the smooth execution of human tissue studies. His work is central to the lab’s mission of advancing research in immunometabolism and cardiometabolic disease through a translational lens. |
Stine J. Tingskov, PhD
Post-doc
Aarhus University Stine Julie Tingskov is a postdoctoral researcher in the Börgeson Lab, where she investigates the role of inflammatory insults in individuals with cardiometabolic health. She earned her PhD in Medicine from the Faculty of Health at Aarhus University (2018–2022) and holds a Master’s degree in Biology from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the same institution. During her PhD and previous work as a Research Assistant, she focused on the effects of a Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator on the development of fibrosis and impaired water handling in chronic kidney disease. |
Bianca Esmée Suur, PhD
Post-doc
Aarhus University Bianca Esmée Suur is a postdoctoral researcher in the Börgeson Lab. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying resolution of inflammation in adipose tissue. She received her PhD in Medicine from Karolinska Institute, Sweden (2017-2022), she also holds a Master’s degree in Biopharmaceutical Sciences from Leiden University, the Netherlands, where she graduated with distinction. During her PhD she investigated the role of proprotein convertases in vascular disease. |
Line Boel Nørregaard, PhD
Post-doc
Aarhus University Line graduated from MSc in Human physiology [2017 - 2019] and PhD [2020 - 2024] from August Krogh Section for Human Physiology at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research focused on cardiovascular ageing, skeletal muscle angiogenesis, exercise physiology, sex differences and thrombosis. She is enrolled as a post-doc at Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University. In her daily work she is based at Steno Diabetes Centre Aarhus where she actively engages in both clinical and laboratory work. Her research primarily focuses on the skeletal muscle and blood components, aiming to understand their role within the area of inflammation in cardiometabolic diseases. |
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Elia Velasco
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Brigita Medelyte
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Research Assistant
Aarhus University Èlia Velasco is a skilled laboratory technician and research assistant in the Börgeson Lab. She holds a BSc in Biotechnology from the University of Girona and an MSc in Psychobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In her current role, Èlia plays a key part in supporting the lab’s experimental work, with a focus on cell culture and flow cytometry. Her technical expertise and attention to detail contribute significantly to the lab’s research efforts in immunometabolism and cardiometabolic disease. |
Research Assistant
Aarhus University Brigita Medelytė is an AC-TAP researcher in the Börgeson Lab, where she contributes to the lab’s translational research on immunometabolism and cardiometabolic disease. In her role, Brigita supports both experimental and clinical aspects of ongoing projects, working closely with team members to implement protocols, process human-derived samples, and ensure high-quality data generation. Her expertise and commitment are key to the lab’s efforts in bridging basic science with patient-focused research. |
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Matúš Soták, PhD |
Adriana Becerril-Campos, PhD
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Ida Bergström, PhD
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Catherine Åhlund
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Senior Scientist &
Lab manager Sahlgrenska Uni. Hospital Matúš Soták is a senior scientist and the lab manager of the Börgeson lab, where he explores the role of intestine in inflammation resolution. He received his PhD at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic [2006 - 2014]. As a PhD student and Research Assistant at the Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, he investigated the role of the circadian clock in regulation of intestinal transport and colorectal carcinogenesis. He received a young investigator award and a prize for best publication of the year. During his postdoc at AstraZeneca, Sweden [2015 - 2017], he explored putative function of sodium glucose transporter isoform SGLT3 in intestine and metabolic pathophysiology. |
Post-Doc
Sahlgrenska Uni. Hospital Adriana graduated from MSc in Human Nutrition [2016 - 2018] and PhD [2019 - 2023] in Biological Sciences at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico. Her focus was on the understanding of the pathogenesis of obesity, lipotoxicity, insulin resistance and nonalcoholic liver disease. She is enrolled as a post-doc at Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset investigating the causality of metabolic phenotypes through patient-specific iPS cells. |
FACS coordinator
Clinical Immunology Dr Bergström did her PhD at the University of Linköping in 2014 and has since worked with clinical characterization and of leukocytes at the clinical immunology and transfusion medicine department at Region Östergötland. With a strong background in leukocyte biology and inflammatory resolution, Dr Bergström coordinates our lab's flow cytometry analysis, being in change of study design, implementation and analysis of data. |
Clinical coordinator
Sahlgrenska Uni. Hospital Ms. Åhlund is the clinical coordinator of the team, integrating basic and clinical research. Following her basic training as a biomedical analysist at the University of Gothenburg, she joined Astra Zeneca in 1983 where she coordinated cardiovascular phase I studies and was involved in the discovery of Losec and Plendil. Subsequently, she joined Gothia Forum and was in charge of coordinating the Gothenburg SCAPIS study headed by Prof. Göran Bergström. |
Graduate Students
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Madison Clark, MSc
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Saeideh Tavajoh, MD
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Lykke Skaarup, MD |
Thorkil Anker-Møller, MD
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PhD Student
Aarhus University Ms. Madison Clark has a BSc at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA with a major in Microbiology and a minor in Chemistry [2018-2020] and graduated with distinction from her MSc in Biology from the University of Gothenburg [2020-2022]. She is now enrolled as a PhD student at Århus university [2023-2026]. |
PhD Student
Aarhus University Saeideh, an MD with a fellowship in diabetology, has nearly a decade of clinical experience in managing diabetes and cardiometabolic conditions. She joined Duke-NUS Medical School (Singapore) in 2014, focusing on hypertension and cardiovascular risk in South and Southeast Asia. In 2021, she joined the Börgeson lab, contributing to ANKRD1, FAINT 1 & 2, and RESOLVE projects. Now a PhD student in biomedical science at Börgeson lab, she studies inflammation in cardiometabolic diseases in collaboration with Steno Diabetes Centre. |
PhD Student
Aarhus University Lykke is a rheumatology fellow, doing her PhD in "Repurposing disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in low grade inflammation and type 2 diabetes." She had a research year at dept.of Pharmacology, during medical school. Now her research focus is in personalized medicine, drug safety and low grade inflammation. Lykke joined our team as a collaborative PhD student, with Dr. Tue Wenzel Kragstrup as main supervisor and Dr. Börgeson as co-supervisor. |
PhD Student
Aarhus University Thorkil Anker-Møller, MD, is a PhD student leading the INFO study on inflammation in cardiometabolic diseases. Previous experience includes a research year at the Department of Clinical Biochemistry and clinical experience from oncology, clinical pharmacology, and family medicine. His research focuses on personalized medicine and low-grade inflammation, with Dr. Börgeson as his main supervisor. |
Erik Schrøder
MD Student
Aarhus University Erik Schröder is a medical student at Aarhus University. He is currently doing a research internship with the lab, focusing on patient recruitment and developing a ROS based flow cytometry assay. |
Sebastian Jakobsen
MD Student
Aarhus University Sebastian Jakobsen is a medical student at Aarhus University. He is currently doing a research internship with the lab, focusing on developing an efferocytosis assay. |
Lea Schaefer
BSc Student
Aarhus University Lea Schaefer is a bachelors student visiting from the University of Bielefeld in molecular biology. She is currently doing an ERASMUS internship at the Börgeson Lab. Her main focus is to gain experience in laboratory work and techniques and expand her knowledge in the field of Biomedicine. |
Alumni
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Benuarda Toto |
Jamie Kraft
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Alankrita Rani |
David Tandio |
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Graduate student
Technische Universität Dresden Ms Benuarda Toto received her Masters of Science in Pharmacy degree from UMT Albania [2012] and then worked as a pharmacist in UHC Pediatric Hospital and the Agimi Pharmacy [2013-2016]. In October 2016 she embarked on her second Master’s Degree in Molecular Bio-engineering from the Technische Universität Dresden in Germany [graduated 2018] and did her thesis project in the Börgeson lab, focusing on the biology of obesity-related modification of the lymphatic system. |
PhD Student
University of Gothenburg Ms Jamie Kraft obtained her Master’s Degree in Biochemistry at the University of Ottawa with a research focus on the effects of breast milk exosomes on the gut [2019] and previously completed her BSc in Biotechnology from Northumrbia University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. [2016]. In the Börgeson lab she worked on resolution models in lymphatics. |
Visiting student
University of Gothenburg Ms. Alankrita Rani received the University Gold medal in Industrial Microbiology in her BSc [2013-16] at Patna Women's College, India. She did her MSc in Applied Microbiology [2016-2018] at Banaras Hindu University and her final year thesis project focused on Molecular Cloning and Bacterial protein expression studies. She worked as a research intern in the Börgeson lab. |
Visiting student
University of Gothenburg Mr David Tandio received his Master’s degree in Pharmacology at the University of Alberta (2019) and having previously completed his BSc in Biomedical Sciences with Extra-Mural Year from King’s College London (2016). Currently, he is performing an internship with the group |
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Fredrik Barrenäs, PhD |
Sylvia Müller, PhD |
Jennifer Cohn |
Emelie Shehadeh
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Senior Research Associate
University of Gothenburg As a bioinformatician, specialized in immunology, Dr. Fredrik Barrenäs worked on overseeing the Börgeson lab’s high-throughput data analyses [2016-2018]. Fredrik received a PhD in bioinformatics from Linköping University [2012] and did a Swedish Research Council sponsored 3-year post doc at the University of Washington in Seattle [2013-2016]. He is now establishing his own team at Uppsala University, Sweden, and continues to collaborate with our team. |
Post-doc
University of Gothenburg Sylvia Müller did a postdoc working collaboratively between the Quiding-Järbrink and Börgeson laboratories [2018]. After a PhD at Newcastle University [2013 - 2016] and a post-doc within Merck KGaA, Dr Müller worked on a translational project and the development of techniques and therapies which can be used in clinical applications. |
Medical student
University of Gothenburg Ms. Jennifer Cohn is currently a Medical student at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden [expected graduation 2020]. Intrigued by the translational research carried out at Börgeson laboratory, she joined the team for a summer internship [2017] and mainly focused on the clinical aspects of cardiometabolic health in obesity. |
Undergraduate student
University of Gothenburg Ms Emilie Shedadeh is now working on her MSc in Biology and Business at the University of Gothenburg [expected graduation 2019]. Ms Shedadeh completed her BSc thesis project and an summer internship at the Börgeson lab, investigating the molecular mechanisms of neutrophil apoptosis pathways. |
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Juan Lantero Rodriguez
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Alexis (Lexi) Gauthier |
Victoria Sorhegui |
Alexandra F. Werling
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Research student
University of Gothenburg Mr. Juan Lantero Rodriguez graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from the University of Madrid, Spain [2009-2014] and completed a Master’s Degree in Molecular Biology at the University of Gothenburg [2014-2016]. He then completed an internship at the Börgeson laboratory, investigating inflammatory resolution pathways. |
Visiting student
Oregon State University Ms. Alexis Gauthier graduated with a BSc from Oregon State University, USA, in 2017 with a double major in Chemistry and Psychology. Ms. Gauthier began working as a volunteer for Dr. Börgeson at UC San Diego [June-July, 2014] and later maintained research activities in the Gothenburg laboratory [2016]. |
Visiting student
Barron Collier High Florida Ms. Victoria Sorhegui joined the lab as a visiting student from Barron Collier High, Florida, USA [June-July 2015 & 2017]. Her internship served as an introduction to biomedical research, in preparation for her college application. Ms Sorhegui now study at Duke University. |
Bachelor student
University of Gothenburg Ms. Alexandra Ferraro Werling is a bachelor student at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden with a major in molecular biology. She completed her bachelor thesis under Dr Börgeson’s guidance in 2015, focusing on clinical trial management. |
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Armando Vazques
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Meenu Rajan, PhD
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Visiting student
University of California, San Diego Mr. Armando Vazquez is currently doing a BSc in Biochemistry and Cellular Biology at UCSD, where he also works in the laboratory of Prof. Huffaker. Armando was one of the successful stipend recipient of the summer 2019, thus performing a internship with the group. |
Post-doc
University of Gothenburg Meenu Rajan was a postdoctoral researcher in the Börgeson Lab [2017-2022), where she is investigating the role of adipose tissue inflammation in obesity. She received her PhD in Medicine Linköping University (2011-2016). Meenu also holds a Master’s degree in Genetic Manipulation and Molecular Cell Biology from University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (2007-2008). |
