Cecilia Johansson

Biography

Dr Cecilia Johansson is a Senior Lecturer in the Section of Respiratory Infections, at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. Dr Johansson did her undergraduate studies at Umeå University and Lund University, Sweden. She then did her PhD in the Section for Immunology at Lund University under the supervision of Professor Mary Jo Wick working on Salmonella infection and dendritic cells. She subsequently trained as a postdoctoral fellow with Brian Kelsall at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA, studying the role of type I interferons (IFNs) during intestinal virus infection. In 2008, Cecilia set up an independent research group at Imperial College supported initially by a Career Development Award from the Medical Research Council. Her main research questions are how lung cells communicate to induce an efficient innate immune response, which cells produce IFNs during respiratory viral infections and how type I IFNs regulate lung inflammation.

Research Interest

Immunology, Cell signaling