Henrietta M. Nielsen

Dr Nielsen is an associate professor of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Stockholm University (Sweden) and leads the Translational Neurodegeneration Research Laboratory. She earned her PhD in Medicine at Lund University (Sweden) and trained at the VUmc in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), and at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville Florida (USA) before starting her laboratory as an interdependent researcher at Stockholm University. The research focus of Dr Nielsen includes APOE, apolipoprotein E biology and peripheral liver-driven phenotypes and processes that may underlie the APOE4-associated increased risk of neurodegenerative disease in different populations. She has a particular interest in the plasma content of apolipoprotein E, its composition and how it relates to Alzheimer’s disease pathology, biomarkers and cognition. Her laboratory utilizes primary human cell cultures, patient-derived tissues and body fluids, and animal model