Main investigators
The research team constitutes a carefully selected group of experienced and young PIs with complementary competence needed to solve the objectives of the centre
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The center director Eystein Husebye is former and current coordinator of FP7 and Horizon聽2020 projects and an expert in the field of rare autoimmune diseases. The center will build聽on his team of young PIs and close collaborators and the infrastructure and technology built聽up at the Department of Clinical Science UiB, the corresponding clinical departments at Haukeland University Hospital (HUS), and the long-term close collaboration with Professor Olle K盲mpe at Karolinska Institute (KI). The main PIs聽are:
: Expert in clinical and experimental endocrinology and聽autoimmunity, with a track record in identification of genetic variants and autoantigens as聽well as clinical and registry studies.
Anette B酶e Wolff (PI, deputy director) - UiB, an expert in molecular biology and functional聽studies of genetic disorders in autoimmunity.
Professor Kristian L酶v氓s (PI, deputy director) - HUS, a clinical endocrinologist with vast experience in聽epidemiology, clinical trials, and patient registries.
,聽a world-leading expert in molecular medicine within the field of聽endocrinology and immunology; member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Science and聽The Nobel Prize Committee. Excellent track record in identification of novel autoantigens,聽clinical and registry studies as well as comparative genetics (dogs, chickens).
, a world-leading expert in genomics and bioinformatics with聽an excellent track record in identifying novel monogenic diseases.聽
Professor Emmet McCormack (PI) - UiB, an expert in developing new immunomodulatorytherapies in leukemia; he will play a key role in designing new immune therapies.聽
Researcher Eirik Bratland (PI) - UiB, an expert in experimental autoimmunity using in vitro cell聽systems and animal models for the study of pathogenesis.
Postdoc Bergithe Oftedal (PI) - UiB, an expert in molecular biology and functional studies of聽genetic disorders in autoimmunity, recently characterized a new form of APS.
, a leading expert in autoimmune animal models related to immunological tolerance,聽especially in mouse models. User of CRISPR/Cas9 technology to generate mouse models.