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Alastair Kerr

Alastair Kerr

Senior Research Specialist
Telephone: +46852481005
Visiting address: C2:94, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset Huddinge, 14186 Stockholm
Postal address: H7 Medicin, Huddinge, H7 CeRM Kerr, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • Alastair is a group leader in the Unit of Endocrinology at the Department of Medicine-Huddinge. Alastair's group uses human white adipose tissue biopsies and large population genetic studies coupled with advanced molecular methods to uncover how disease relevant long non-coding RNA function in fat cells.

    Alastair Kerr received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2017 before completing his postdoctoral studies at the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ in the laboratories of Prof. Peter Arner and Dr. Ingrid Dahlman. Here he examined how long non-coding RNAs function in human adipocytes to regulate lipid metabolism. During the post-doctoral work Alastair, discovered the long non-coding RNA, ADIPINT, to be a regulator of the lipid mass in adipocytes through interaction with the metabolic enzyme pyruvate carboxylase. He is the inventor of the method TROOPS, which allows the identification of interacting proteins for a given lncRNA.

Articles

  • Journal article: EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL. 2025;:ehaf129
    Kerr AG
  • Article: CLINICAL NUTRITION. 2024;43(2):468-475
    Kerr AG; Andersson DP; Ryden M; Arner P
  • Article: ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY. 2023;43(6):1054-1065
    Kerr AG; Andersson DP; Dahlman I; Ryden M; Arner P
  • Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2023;14(1):1438
    Massier L; Jalkanen J; Elmastas M; Zhong J; Wang T; Nankam PAN; Frendo-Cumbo S; Backdahl J; Subramanian N; Sekine T; Kerr AG; Tseng BTP; Laurencikiene J; Buggert M; Lourda M; Kublickiene K; Bhalla N; Andersson A; Valsesia A; Astrup A; Blaak EE; Stahl PL; Viguerie N; Langin D; Wolfrum C; Blueher M; Ryden M; Mejhert N
  • Article: DIABETES. 2023;72(3):316-325
    Andersson DP; Kerr AG; Dahlman I; Ryden M; Arner P
  • Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY. 2022;46(6):1196-1203
    Arner P; Andersson DP; Arner E; Ryden M; Kerr AG
  • Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2022;13(1):2958
    Kerr AG; Wang Z; Wang N; Kwok KHM; Jalkanen J; Ludzki A; Lecoutre S; Langin D; Bergo MO; Dahlman I; Mim C; Arner P; Gao H
  • Article: NATURE METABOLISM. 2022;4(2):190-202
    Maqdasy S; Lecoutre S; Renzi G; Frendo-Cumbo S; Rizo-Roca D; Moritz T; Juvany M; Hodek O; Gao H; Couchet M; Witting M; Kerr A; Bergo MO; Choudhury RP; Aouadi M; Zierath JR; Krook A; Mejhert N; Ryden M
  • Article: JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. 2020;288(2):219-233
    Kerr AG; Andersson DP; Ryden M; Arner P; Dahlman I
  • Article: MOLECULAR METABOLISM. 2019;25:159-167
    Kerr AG; Sinha I; Dadvar S; Arner P; Dahlman I
  • Article: ATHEROSCLEROSIS. 2018;276:74-82
    Patel J; Douglas G; Kerr AG; Hale AB; Channon KM
  • Article: EBIOMEDICINE. 2018;30:248-260
    Gao H; Kerr A; Jiao H; Hon C-C; Ryden M; Dahlman I; Arner P
  • Article: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM. 2018;103(2):710-721
    Petrus P; Bialesova L; Checa A; Kerr A; Naz S; Backdahl J; Gracia A; Toft S; Dahlman-Wright K; Heden P; Dahlman I; Wheelock CE; Arner P; Mejhert N; Gao H; Ryden M
  • Article: JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS. 2017;361(3):417-428
    Kerr AG; Tam LCS; Hale AB; Cioroch M; Douglas G; Agkatsev S; Hibbitt O; Mason J; Holt-Martyn J; Bataille CJR; Wynne GM; Channon KM; Russell AJ; Wade-Martins R
  • Article: MOLECULAR THERAPY NUCLEIC ACIDS. 2016;5(11):e383
    Kerr AG; Tam LCS; Hale AB; Cioroch M; Douglas G; Channon KM; Wade-Martins R

All other publications

  • Preprint: RESEARCH SQUARE. 2021
    Kerr A; Kwok K; Ludzki A; Langin D; Dahlman I; Arner P; Gao H

Grants

  • Swedish Research Council
  • Novo Nordisk Foundation
  • European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes
  • Ã…ke Wiberg Stiftelse
  • Magnus Bergvalls Stiftelse
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