Margaret Sällberg Chen, Sweden

Margaret Sällberg Chen is a Full Professor at Karolinska Institutet (KI), where she serves as Faculty Representative for Doctoral Education. She leads a research group at the Division of Pathology, LABMED, focusing on immunology and microbiome-host interactions, and holds an adjunct professorship at the Karolinska Comprehensive Cancer Center, specializing in cell therapy and allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

Her research focues on translational immunology, with a strong emphasis on cancer immunology, infectious diseases, and microbiome research. Recently, her team has explored the interplay between the microbiota and immune responses in the context of cancer and oncopathogens, including the development of biomarkers for diagnostics and therapeutics.

She has authored 97 peer-reviewed publications and co-authored several book chapters and magazines, with over 4,700 citations and an h-index of 33. She has supervised numerous PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, and her work is supported by leading Swedish and international funding agencies.

She has extensive international collaborations in cancer immunology and regenerative medicine, and has held academic guest positions at institutions such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore, Tongji University, and Cancer Research UK through collaborations.