Endogenous danger signals in infection and inflammation

PI: Andrea Puhar, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Biology
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We study the role of endogenous danger signals (DAMPs), in particular extracellular ATP (eATP), during intestinal infection and inflammation. We wish to understand how elements of the gut and the intestinal bacteria - both pathogens and commensals - regulate and respond to the dynamic appearance and disappearance of eATP and how this impacts on development of disease.

Andrea Puhar is a Wallenberg Academy Fellow
Read about her research on the website of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation:

Söker bot mot inflammation (in Swedish)

Seeking cures for inflammation (in English)

Photo credit: Mattias Petterson.