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Bijar Ghafouri

Professor, Head of Unit

I am professor in pain biochemistry with a focus on proteomics

Presentation

Bijar Ghafouri is a pre-clinical Professor of biochemistry of chronic pain with a focus on proteomics at department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, division of Prevention, Rehabilitation and Community Medicine. She graduated from Faculty of Science and Engineering 2001 and completed her PhD at Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences 2005. She is director of third-cycle education at department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences. She is also head of PAINOMICS laboratory at the division of Pain and Rehabilitation Medicine. Professor Ghafouri has co-authored more than 100 articles, reviews, and posters on clinical biomarkers with a major interest in chronic pain. She is an editor of Scientific Reports and reviews for many peer-reviewed journals. Her main research interest is investigating molecular “signature” of chronic pain using omics. She supervises undergraduate students and doctoral students in the research field of clinical biomarkers

Publications

2026

Siri Fägerstam, Emir Johansson, Peder af Geijerstam, Karin Rådholm, Bijar Ghafouri (2026) Dried blood spot sample extraction for metabolomics and proteomics profiling for clinical trials: a descriptive exploratory study Scientific Reports, Vol. 16, Article 12196 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Xiangyu Qiao, Vanessa William Toma, Jing Wang, Ángel Herraiz-Adillo, Simon Söderholm, Daniel Berglind, Susanna Calling, Bledar Daka, Mats Martinell, Frida Bergman, Pontus Henriksson, Bijar Ghafouri, Martin Ulander, Carl Johan Östgren, Claudio Cantù, Wen Zhong, Fredrik Iredahl (2026) Genetic predisposition to coffee consumption and the association with the early risk of atherosclerosis Scientific Reports, Vol. 16, Article 9652 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Maria Samefors, Karin Rådholm, Carl Johan Östgren, Malin Ernberg, Kaisa Mannerkorpi, Eva Kosek, Bijar Ghafouri (2026) Plasma vitamin D and cytokines in relation to exercise in patients with fibromyalgia- A 15-week strength training intervention trial Scandinavian Journal of Pain, Vol. 26, Article 20250043 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2025

Peter Zsigmond, Emmanuel Bäckryd, Bijar Ghafouri (2025) The relationship between inflammatory markers in cerebrospinal fluid in healthy controls and in patients with severe essential tremor before and after deep brain stimulation Brain Disorders, Vol. 20, Article 100277 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Madeleine Blomqvist, Martina Bardino Morch, Bijar Ghafouri, Karin Wåhlén, Oonagh Shannon, Julia R. Davies (2025) Immunomodulatory effects of eubiotic and dysbiotic multi-species biofilms on oral keratinocytes BMC Oral Health, Vol. 26, Article 203 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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