Lovisa Johansson

Lovisa Johansson is a PhD student in the Hallbeck lab working to elucidate the mechanisms underlying propagation of neurodegenerative disease proteins, with specific focus on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. 

Main research areas

In Lovisa's research, she investigates three key areas including:

* The role of the endocytic system in protein aggregation

* The role of exosomes/extracellular vesicles (EVs) in the cell-to-cell propagation of aggregates

* The utilisation of EVs for early Alzheimer's disease diagnosis

This work is critical in improving our understanding of processes involved in disease progress and will ultimately increase our chances of developing diagnostic and therapeutic targets for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

Research

Stopping the propagation of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

Neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s are progressive disease that causes great suffering for the victims and relatives, in addition it cause large economic costs for society.

Coworkers

Martin Hallbeck

Professor

Organisation

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV)

What characterizes the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV) is the wide breadth of research and education. BKV is one of the largest departments at LiU with affiliation mainly to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.