Postdoctoral studies in tumor immunology and immunotherapy (scholarship)

One or two postdoctoral scholarships for experimental immunologists in the Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy Group led by Dhifaf Sarhan, Division of Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet. The group studies how interactions between innate and adaptive immune cells, together with sex differences, shape the organisation and function of the tumour microenvironment, why immune cells control tumours in some settings but are excluded or suppressed in others, and how these processes can be redirected therapeutically. The scholar will lead a mechanistic project on immune-tumour-stromal interactions, turning findings from patient material, single-cell and spatial analyses into testable hypotheses and testing them with functional assays and genetic or pharmacological perturbation in mouse tumour models and human culture systems, in close collaboration with Karolinska University Hospital (reference STÖD 2-4422/2026).

Postdoctoral scholarships at Karolinska Institutet are reserved for foreign researchers: a person living in another country who comes to Sweden to carry out all or part of their postdoctoral training at KI. People resident in Sweden, or who completed all or part of their academic education at KI or another Swedish institution, cannot be considered. A scholarship can be granted for at most two years within the four-year period after the doctoral degree (or equivalent).