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Dr Cecilia Johansson
Dr Cecilia Johansson is a Research Lecturer in the Section of Respiratory Infections, at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.
Dr Johansson did her undergraduate studies at Umea University and Lund University, Sweden. She did her PhD in the Section for Immunology at Lund University under the supervision of Professor Mary Jo Wick. The focus of the work was Salmonella infection and dendritic cells. After finishing her PhD she spent 3 years at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA as a postdoctoral fellow studying the role of type I interferons (IFN) during intestinal virus infection in the lab of Dr Brian Kelsall.
In 2007, Cecilia joined Professor Peter Openshaw’s group at Imperial College London and in 2008 she was awarded a Career Development Award from the Medical Research Council. Her group is now focusing on the role of innate interferons during RSV infection.
Cecilia is a member of the MRC and Asthma UK Centre for Asthma and Allergy, the Wellcome Trust funded Centre for Respiratory Infection and the Medical Research Club.
Selected Publications
Journals
- Johansson C; Wetzel JD; He J; Mikacenic C; Dermody TS; Kelsall BL. (11 Jun 2007). Type I interferons produced by hematopoietic cells protect mice against lethal infection by mammalian reovirus. J Exp Med. 204:1349-1358. DOI.
