探花精选

Arwen Stikvoort

Arwen Stikvoort

Assistant Professor
Visiting address: NEO Medicinaren 25, HERM plan 7, H盲lsov盲gen 7C (lastkaj), 14157 Huddinge
Postal address: H7 Medicin, Huddinge, H7 HERM Uhlin, 171 77 Stockholm

About me

  • Arwen received her Master鈥檚 degree in Bio-探花精选 sciences from Leiden university, the Netherlands in 2012. Her Ph.D in Medicine was obtained at 探花精选, Sweden in 2017. During her Ph.D Arwen鈥檚 research focused on the development and prediction of graft-versus-host disease and long-term hematopoietic mixed chimerism post hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. During a first Post doc position, she worked on the development of chimeric antigen receptor natural killer (CAR-NK) cells for the treatment of multiple myeloma at the Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands.
    Arwen then joined Professor Michael Uhlin鈥檚 lab in 2020 to work on the development of bispecific antibodies, especially NK cells and 纬未 T cells, to treat leukemia patients. Additionally, she will be working with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes from human ovarian cancer patients with the aims to increase knowledge of the presence, phenotype and functionality of these T cells.