Sven Hammarström

My main work assignments are in research and education within the medical faculty of Linköping University.

Presentation

My research deals with how lipid mediators of inflammation (leukotrienes, prostaglandins and thromboxane) influence the proliferation and differentiation of blood cells as well as platelet function in thrombosis, stroke and myocardial infarction.

Publications

2012

Jakob Ström, Tobias Strid, Sven Hammarström (2012) Disruption of the alox5ap gene ameliorates focal ischemic stroke: possible consequence of impaired leukotriene biosynthesis BMC neuroscience (Online), Vol. 13, p. 146-

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Tobias Strid, Mikael Sigvardsson, Cecilia Karlsson, Mats Söderström, Hong Qian, Sven Hammarström (2012) Expression of leukotriene biosynthesis proteins in fetal and adult hematopoietic cells and its functional effects on hematopoiesis

2010

Sara Börjesson, Teija Parkkari, Sven Hammarström, Fredrik Elinder (2010) Electrostatic Tuning of Cellular Excitability Biophysical Journal, Vol. 98, p. 396-403

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CV

Summarily

1971 MD at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
1972 PhD and Docent at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
PhD thesis dealt with the biosynthesis of cerebrosides using deuterium labeling and GC-MS techniques
1974-1975 Post-doc at Harvard University, Cambridge
1986 full professor in medical cell biology at Linköping University
1993-1995 spent a Sabbatical at the University of California, San Diego and have returned there as visiting professor for about a month each year
I have published more than 200 scientific papers

Collaboration

I collaborate with researchers at Linköping University and UCSD

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.