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Areas of Expertise and Staff

PPS consists of laboratories at five Swedish universities. On this page, staff is presented per university and in order of their areas of expertise.

University of Gothenburg

The PPS staff in Gothenburg are engaged in mammalian cells, yeast, and cell-free protein synthesis.

Our areas of expertise
Mammalian cells
Using mammalian cells for protein production allows us to produce proteins with the full complexity of native human proteins…

Malin Bäckström (PPS Director)

Elisabeth Thomsson

Richard Lymer

Mikael Andersson

Cecilia Wickstrand

Our areas of expertise
Yeast Protein Production (YPP)
Being a vital part of PPS, yeast provides a simple eukaryotic host system with the potential to produce very high yields of…

Kristina Hedfalk

Ulrika Lind

Our areas of expertise
Cell-Free Protein Synthesis
PPS provides specialized in vitro protein production services utilizing isolated translation machinery from E. coli,…

Anders Bay Nord

Ashish Kawale

Lund University

The PPS staff at Lund University are engaged in insect cells and gateway modules

Our areas of expertise
Insect cell
Since the first recombinant protein productions using a baculovirus vector were reported more than 40 years ago, the…
Our areas of expertise
Gateway modules
SWEBeams defines in its final report the concept of “Instegsmiljö” – Gateway system, which in the broadest sense describes…

Wolfgang Knecht, PPS Deputy Director & Node Director Lund

Ewa Krupinska

Anna Andersson Rasmussen

Celeste Sele

Heather Sullivan

Victoriia Murina

Karolinska Institutet

The PPS staff at Karolinska Institutet are engaged in bacteria.

Our areas of expertise
Bacteria
PPS offers protein production services in various Escherichia coli hosts.

Tomas Nyman, Node Director Stockholm

Henrik Spåhr

Emilia Strandback

Martin Moche

Tom Reichenbach

Royal Institute of Technology, KTH

The PPS staff at Royal Institute of Technology are engaged in mammalian cells.

Our areas of expertise
Mammalian cells
Using mammalian cells for protein production allows us to produce proteins with the full complexity of native human proteins…

Hanna Tegel, Deputy Node Director Stockholm

Anna Berling

Daniella Hamnqvist

Umeå University

The PPS staff in Umeå are enngaged in E Coli bacteria and plant cells

Our areas of expertise
Bacteria
PPS offers protein production services in various Escherichia coli hosts.
Our areas of expertise
Plant cells
Protein production in Plant cell Suspension Systems. If certain PTMs are crucial for the function or activity of a target…

Uwe Sauer, Node Director Umeå

Vasiliki Zacharaki

Tobias Hainzl

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