Finding your niche: cellular heterogeneity in asthma

Professor Sven-Erik Dahlén (MD, PhD, Fellow of ERS and BPS, born 1952) is senior professor of asthma and allergy research at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and the Lung- and Allergy Clinic at Karolinska University Hospital. He has served as Director of the Centre for Allergy Research at Karolinska Institutet 2005-2023. He is recognised for translational research on biological effects of eicosanoids (Leukotrienes, prostaglandins and related compounds), the use of eicosanoid metabolites as biomarkers in asthma, and the role of the mast cell in asthma and allergy. He is leading international and national consortia for phenotyping of severe asthma (PI of BIOAIR & BIOCROSS, Co-PI of U-BIOPRED and 3TR-ABC). He has much experience with both preclinical research and clinical trials for the development of new treatments for asthma and has published about 400 peer reviewed papers. He was ERS Research Director 2007-2011 with responsibility for awards, fellowships, and EU affairs, and chairman of the 2007 ERS Congress in Stockholm. Dahlén has over the years had many appointments for the medical faculty of the Karolinska Institute, including chairmanship of the selection committee for Vice Chancellor and other high positions 2010-2018.