Pandemics and Alertness member WG2 (Fighting the virus), LINXS Fellow

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University and Department of Clinical Sciences, Karolinska Institute/Danderyd Hospital, Sweden

Marie Hagbom is Associate Professor in Molecular Virology at Linköping University and Senior Research Specialist at Karolinska Institute/Danderyd Hospital. She has over 17 years of experience in virology research, with expertise in enteric viruses and pathophysiology. She received her PhD at Linköping University in 2015 and was appointed Associate Professor in 2022. Her research has made key contributions to understanding how enteric viruses, such as rotavirus, induce the disease symptoms diarrhea and vomiting. A central focus of her work has been the use of human organoid models due to their high biological relevance. In 2018, she established human stem cell-derived enteroids as an infection model and built a library of enteroids to enable the study of individual responses. Expanding this work, in 2024, she developed human nose organoids for studying respiratory viruses. She is currently working on generating sensory nerves from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), with the goal of creating complex co-culture models that integrate organoids, sensory nerves, and immune cells to explore infection dynamics. Since April 2025, she has been recruited to Karolinska Institute/Danderyd Hospital to establish an organoid center (PI: Charlotte Thålin), with an initial focus on respiratory organoid models.