Petter Brodin

Dr. Petter Brodin is an Associate professor in the Department of Immunology at the Karolinska Institute and a physician in the Department of Pediatrics at the Karolinska University Hospital. After earning his MD and PhD from the Karolinksa Institute, he did a postdoc at Stanford University School of Medicine before returning to Sweden to establish his own lab. Dr. Brodin’s research focuses on a number of aspects of the human immune system, including the role of human immune system variation in heath and disease and understanding the factors that shape the immune system.  In particular, he is interested in exploring the impact that environmental exposures-the microbiome, vaccines, infections and nutrition-have on the developing immune system during the early years of life. His lab uses novel high-dimensional methods operating at single-cell resolution, such as Mass cytometry and single cell RNA sequencing to analyze not just the impact of all these factors simultaneously, but also to account for the relationship between each of them. In addition. Dr. Brodin hopes to use his findings to devise ways of stratifying patients based on their immunological makeup and responses in order to ensure that the right patients get the right treatment.