Karin Wåhlén

Assistant Professor

I’m a medical biologist and PhD at PAINOMICS® laboratory. My research focus on finding biomarkers for generalized pain (fibromyalgia) and other chronic pain conditions by studying proteins in blood using different omic techniques and bioinformatics.

Publications

2025

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)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-025-07576-w

2024

L. S. Hansson, A. Tognetti, P. Sigurjonsson, E. Bruck, Karin Wåhlén, K. Jensen, M. J. Olsson, Rani Toll, Daniel Wilhelms, M. Lekander, J. Lasselin (2024)

Perception of unfamiliar caregivers during sickness - Using the new Caregiver Perception Task (CgPT) during experimental endotoxemia Brain, behavior, and immunity, Vol. 119, p. 741-749 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2024.04.031

2023

Bijar Ghafouri, Daria Matikhan, Nikolaos Christidis, Malin Ernberg, Eva Kosek, Kaisa Mannerkorpi, Björn Gerdle, Karin Wåhlén (2023)

The Vastus Lateralis Muscle Interstitium Proteome Changes after an Acute Nociception in Patients with Fibromyalgia Compared to Healthy Subjects-A Microdialysis Study Biomedicines, Vol. 11, Article 206 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines11010206

Laura Korhonen, Elisabeth Paul, Karin Wåhlén, Liina Haring, Eero Vasar, Antti Vaheri, Dan Lindholm (2023)

Multivariate analyses of immune markers reveal increases in plasma EN-RAGE in first-episode psychosis patients Translational Psychiatry, Vol. 13, Article 326 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02627-8

Bianka Karshikoff, Karin Wåhlén, Jenny Astrom, Mats Lekander, Linda Holmstrom, Rikard K. K. Wicksell (2023)

Inflammatory Blood Signature Related to Common Psychological Comorbidity in Chronic Pain Biomedicines, Vol. 11, Article 713 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines11030713

Research Group

PAINOMICS® Research Group

The aim of the research at Painomics laboratory is to investigate mechanistic markers of nociception and severity of pain, in peripheral and central level in subjects with chronic pain conditions, using omics.

Organisation

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Unit of Public Health

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