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

Senior Lecturer, Division of Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Medical Faculty, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Pontus Nordenfelt started in Biotechnology Engineering (M.S.Eng) at LTH in Lund, Sweden. He finished his Ph.D. in 2010 in Cell Biology and Microbiology at Lund University and the University of Toronto, focusing on phagocytosis of bacteria. The first postdoc within Infection Medicine was in Lund with studies on pathogen antibody interaction. This was followed by a longer postdoc in Immunology at Harvard Medical School, partly as a Fellow at the Image and Data Analysis Core facility and at MBL Woods Hole during the summers. The second postdoc was focused on integrin biology. He started his group in 2017 at the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University. He was elected into the Swedish Young Academy in 2018 and received a VR Consolidator Grant in 2023. The Nordenfelt Lab studies how human cells interact with their environment, focusing on cell biology that influences immune responses. By examining surface molecules, morphology, biomechanical forces, antibodies, complement systems, and receptors like Fc and integrins, the lab develops new technologies to improve diagnostics and treatments for infections and cancer. Recently, their work has emphasized creating monoclonal antibodies against human pathogens.