Bäckhed Lab

18 March 2025

Meet our visiting PhD student Avee Megur

Interview with our visiting student Avee Megur. ...

05 March 2025

Meet our new team member Wanli He

Wanli is our new bioinformatician. ...

27 February 2025

Rima Chakaroun awarded in Clinical Research

By the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO. ...

14 February 2025

Professor Bäckhed new Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology

Professor Bäckhed elected member of the American Academy of Microbiology 2025. ...

21 January 2025

Meet our team member Matthias Mitteregger

17 December 2024

Seasonal greetings from our Lab

06 December 2024

The final meeting in the CaMiT project

took place at DTU,Copenhagen, Denmark ...

19 November 2024

Fredrik Bäckhed presenting "The Gut Microbiome in Cardiometabolic Diseases"

at the Nature Café, London, UK ...

19 November 2024

Meet with our Microbiology Lab Manager Johanna

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About us

Contact us

info@backhedlab.org

Postal address

Wallenberg Laboratory/Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Bruna Stråket 16, level 2/3
SE-413 45 Göteborg
SWEDEN

Visiting address (deliveries)

Wallenberg Laboratory/Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Bruna Stråket 16, level 2/3
SE-413 45 Göteborg

You can also reach our Lab via the main entrance at Sahlgrenska Hospital,
Blå Stråket 5, Entrance H

Bäckhed Lab

Our research group takes a translational research approach to investigate how the gut microbiota contributes to cardiometabolic disease.

We aim to increase the knowledge of the metagenome and explore how metabolites interacts in the processes for developing T2D and CVD.

More about our research

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