Lotta Jansson
Research Director
Immunology
apitope
Austria
Biography
Lotta`s immunology career began with Prof. Hans Wigzell, Dept at Uppsala University and then the experimental rheumatology group led by Prof. Lars Klareskog characterizing collagen induced arthritis models. Her PhD thesis is focused on the immune modulatory role of sex hormones in experimental models of rheumatoid arthritis (CIA) and multiple sclerosis (EAE). In 1994 Dr. Jansson moved to the Medical Inflammation Research section at Lund University, headed by Prof. Rikard Holmdahl as Assistant Professor with focus on the immunological mechanisms and finding genes involved in peptide induced EAE. Lotta joined Apitope from Astra Zeneca where she was Associate Director in the Dept. of Neuroscience, iMed Neuroscience area in Södertälje, Sweden. In this role Lotta headed the GLP Animal Facility and her section delivered the in vivo models profiling of potential candidate drugs in the areas of pain and neurodegenerative diseases. Lotta was also a member of new target generation team focusing on the neuroimmunological mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease.
Research Interest
Neuroimmunology
