Distinguished Lecturer Seminar Series
Filipe Pereira - Lund University
Date: 04.04.2025
Time: 11:00
Location: Main Auditorium
Host: M. Mall
Titel: In Vivo Dendritic Cell Reprogramming for Cancer Immunotherapy
Filipe Pereira, Ph.D. is a Professor of Molecular Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University in Sweden. Dr. Pereira is recognized for his work at the interface of cellular reprogramming and immunology and for fostering development of reprogramming-based immunotherapies.
For the last 20 years he has contributed to the fields of cellular reprogramming and hematopoietic specification. Dr. Pereira received his Ph.D. at Imperial College London where he established cell fusion and heterokaryons to study mechanisms of reprogramming towards pluripotency. During his postdoctoral training at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, he brought cellular reprogramming concepts to hematopoeisis for the first time. Dr. Pereira started his independent group at Lund University in 2017 and has uncovered new mechanisms underlying hematopoietic reprogramming and definitive hematopoiesis specification. He pioneered cellular reprogramming approaches in immunology by inducing dendritic cells from fibroblasts and cancer cells. This conceptual shift opened exciting opportunities to merge cellular reprogramming and cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Pereira co-founded Asgard Therapeutics, which received investment from leading European VCs to translate in vivo dendritic cell reprogramming to benefit cancer patients.
For his scientific accomplishments and innovation efforts, he received several notable scientific awards, including ERC Consolidator and Proof-of-Concept Grants, the Novo Nordisk Foundation Distinguished Innovator Grant and the entrepreneurship award from Mount Sinai-KiiLN. Dr. Pereira is a fellow of the Swedish Wallenberg program in Molecular Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cellular Reprogramming. He was also awarded the prestigious Swedish Fernström Prize, the Imperial College Emerging Alumni Leader Award and a medal of merit from his hometown in Portugal.