Jóna Freysdóttir

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Professor at Faculty of Medicine, Shool of Health Sciences, University of Iceland

Project leader, Department of Immunology, Landspitali - The National University Hospital of Iceland

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E-mail: jonaf (at) landspitali.is 
Phone: +354-543-5800

Location: 
Department of Immunology, Bld 14 at Eiriksgata, Landspitali – The University Hospital of Iceland, Bld 14 at Eiriksgata, 101 Reykjavik

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Jóna Freysdóttir

1996 PhD, Imperial College of London – Hammersmith Campus

1996-1998 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Guy´s Hospital, London

1998-2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Leeds, England

2000-2004 Project Leader, Lyfjathroun Biopharmaceuticals, Reykjavik

2005-present Project Leader, Department of Immunology, Landspitali-The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik

2012-present Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik

Professor Freysdottir runs her lab in close collaboration with Professor Hardardottir. Their research focuses on resolution of inflammation and the effects of nutrition and natural products on inflammation and resolution of inflammation. They use a murine antigen-induced inflammation model in mice and cells (dendritic cells, T cells, keratinocytes, NK cells and neutrophils) in culture.