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Bioelectronic medicine – a growing research field

Interview with Peder Olofsson

Peder Olofsson, researcher at MedTechLabs and KI
Peder Olofsson. Foto: Alexander Donka
Published Oct 13, 2020

“It is fascinating that in the treatment of inflammation, it can be enough to send a few minute-long electrical pulses per day to achieve a long-term effect."

Peder Olofsson is a physician and researcher at the Department of Medicine, Solna, at Karolinska Institutet, and at MedTechLabs.

His research at MedTechLabs focuses primarily on mapping out the signal transfer between nerves and immune cells at the molecular level, and on finding out which parts of the large vagus nerve that communicate with the immune system.

Read the full article  by Felicia Lindberg, first published in Swedish in the magazine Medicinsk Vetenskap No 2/2020.