Elin Nyman

Head of Department, Associate Professor, Docent

I am Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering (IMT) and a researcher in systems biology. I also teach and supervise students in systems biology and in E-health.

Head of Department

As head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, I lead the department's work. Together with my colleagues, I want to create an environment characterised by mutual trust and respect where we can develop and strengthen the department together.

Research

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Systems Biology

By combining mathematical models, prior knowledge, and experimental data, we unravel biological mechanisms and contribute to the development of new drugs and clinical tools.

Integrative Systems Biology (ISB)

We aim towards being the world leading group in the unravelling of systems-level mechanistic insights, using inter-connected M4 models for decision support in pharma and P4 medicine – thereby making a positive change in society.

Research projects

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Robust, Realistic and Reliable Measurements of Metabolism

New measuring techniques have always been one of the most important driving forces for medical development. The methods developed in this project could allow us to look further into the body: into the highly detailed metabolism of the human cells.

M4-health: the basis for general AI in health care

In the VR funded project “M4-health: the basis for general AI in health care” we make way for a more general and flexible type of AI in health care.

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Knowledge Driven Drug Development

In this project, financed by VR medicine’s investment in pharmacy, the researchers are working with AstraZeneca to develop a new type of knowledge driven drug development.

Publications

2024

Christian Simonsson, Elin Nyman, Peter Gennemark, Peter Gustafsson, Ingrid Hotz, Mattias Ekstedt, Peter Lundberg, Gunnar Cedersund (2024) A unified framework for prediction of liver steatosis dynamics in response to different diet and drug interventions Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 43, p. 1532-1543 (Article in journal)

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2023

Niloofar Nikaein, Kedeye Tuerxun, Gunnar Cedersund, Daniel Eklund, Robert Kruse, Eva Särndahl, Eewa Nånberg, Antje Thonig, Dirk Repsilber, Alexander Persson, Elin Nyman (2023) Mathematical models disentangle the role of IL-10 feedbacks in human monocytes upon proinflammatory activation Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 299, Article 105205 (Article in journal)

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Christian Simonsson, William Lövfors, Niclas Bergqvist, Elin Nyman, Peter Gennemark, Karin G. Stenkula, Gunnar Cedersund (2023) A multi-scale in silico mouse model for diet-induced insulin resistance Biochemical engineering journal, Vol. 191, Article 108798 (Article in journal)

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Education

I supervise students at bachelor's and master's level within both the Faculty of Science and Engineering and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

I am examiner for the following courses:

News

21 October 2025

AI method for determining time of death is awarded prize

Jenny Arpe’s master’s thesis at LiU presents a new method for determining the time of death using AI. For this she has now been awarded a master of science in engineering thesis prize awarded in memory of Christopher Polhem.

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06 February 2024

“Got further than I could have imagined”

LiU’s interdisciplinary investment in e-health is here to stay. In a course, students from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences are working together with students from the Faculty of Science and Engineering to develop digital solutions.

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25 September 2023

SEK 13 million for research into solving murders using AI

Was it murder, poisoning or was the death maybe caused by disease? Researchers have now been granted SEK 13 million from the Swedish Research Council to develop a methodology to solve crimes using detailed analyses and artificial intelligence.

Organisation

Department of Biomedical Engineering (IMT)

A national centre for research, PhD studies and graduate studies within biomedical engineering, since 1972.

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Division of Biomedical Engineering (MT)

A national centre for research, education and innovation within the field of biomedical engineering.

Elin Nyman

Head of Department