Welcome to our lab's website !

Aging and age-related diseases are central to human health and longevity. We study the molecular mechanisms that regulate aging and hope to exploit them for therapeutic purposes. For more details on our research, please follow this link.

We are located at the new Integrated Cardio Metabolic Center (ICMC) at Karolinska Institute (KI) in Stockholm/Sweden. ICMC is a joint research center between KI and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, aiming to develop innovative treatments for human diseases.

What's new?

project grant from Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council) awarded

06.11.19 - We just received a new project grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), to continue our work on DAF-16/FOXO-related mechanisms that influence how fast we age.

new publication

10.04.19 - We are excited about a new research paper from our lab entitled "Transcriptomics-Based Screening Identifies Pharmacological Inhibition of Hsp90 as a Means to Defer Aging" in Cell Reports. The paper can be accessed here.

new publication

24.10.18 - Our lab just published a new research paper entitled "DAF-16/FOXO and HLH-30/TFEB function as combinatorial transcription factors to promote stress resistance and longevity" in Nature Communications. The paper can be accessed here.

new publication

10.10.18 - Xin, Ilke, and Christian just published a review entitled "Regulation of Age-related Decline by Transcription Factors and Their Crosstalk with the Epigenome" in Current Genomics. The review can be accessed here.

new lab member

15.01.18 - We welcome our new postdoc, Daniel Edgarf! Daniel joined us from the Buck Institute in Novato, USA.

new lab manager

01.01.18 - We welcome our new lab manager, Poomy Pandey! Poomy joined us from the MBB at Karolinska Institutet.

network grant from Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council) awarded

06.12.17 - The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) just awarded a network grant for the study of aging that our lab is part of. Thank you VR !

new lab member

01.09.17 - We welcome our new postdoc, Jérôme Salignon! Jérôme joined us from the CNRS in Lyon, France.

new lab member

01.08.17 - We welcome our new PhD student, Alan Kavsek! Alan joined us from the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

new lab member

01.05.17 - We welcome our new postdoc, Andrea Stöhr! Andrea joined us from the NIH in Bethesda, USA.

KID grant awarded

28.03.17 - Karolinska Institutet just awarded us a doctoral education grant. Thank you KI !

open postdoc position !

22.03.17 - We are recruiting a postdoc for the following project:
Transcriptional regulation and epigenetics in the context of aging and age-related diseases. See here for the ad.