The Society of Swedish Engineers in Great Britain has awarded Mr. Gustav Jonsson the 2018 scholarship for him to continue his work at Imperial College London (ICL) to further promote a fruitful collaboration in academic research between Great Britain and Sweden. The scholarship will allow Gustav to continue working on the project while applying for a Ph.D.
Gustav performed his master?s thesis in the laboratory of Dr. Nadia Guerra at ICL co-supervised by Professor Bj?rn ?nfelt from KTH. Throughout the project, a chip with micro-scale wells (developed by Prof. ?nfelt) allowing separation of individual immune cells with individual tumour cells was implemented and experimentally validated at ICL.
The aim of Gustav?s future research is to further study these sub-populations of NK cells to identify the underlying mechanisms behind NK cell heterogeneity and anti-tumour capability. A steam-lined and effective way of identifying and quantifying NK cells of a high killing capacity would not only be interesting from a basic research perspective, but also a therapeutic perspective in which a patient?s intrinsic ability to fight cancer can be assessed.