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is a multidisciplinary research group of 1520 members, including postdoctoral fellows, PhD and masters students, and technical staff. We are equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure, encompassing a comprehensive preclinical laboratory at Biomedicum and a dedicated clinical research unit at Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge. Using these resources, we focus on understanding how alterations in human white adipocyte function contribute to cardiometabolic disorders, including type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, and atherosclerosis.

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We are recruiting a research assistant to lead a project aimed at establishing a gene-editing pipeline in mesenchymal stem cells using Cas9-mediated engineering. The edited cells will subsequently be differentiated into adipocytes to enable studies of protein localization, interaction partners, and function in human fat c...