Karolina Aberg, Ph.D.LinkedIn profile for Karolina Aberg
Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Biomarker Research and Precision Medicine
Department of Pharmaceutics
Karolina Aberg, Ph.D., is a professor and associate director of the Center for Biomarker Research and Precision Medicine (BPM).
She earned her doctorate from Uppsala University, Sweden, in 2005. Aberg’s research interests are focused on the genetic and epigenetic basis of the development of psychiatric phenotypes, such as schizophrenia, depression, autism spectrum disorder and addiction. Her team also aims to identify biomarkers for early detection of these psychiatric phenotypes and studies inter-individual variation in response to pharmaceuticals commonly used to treat psychiatric disorders. Aberg and collaborators were early adaptors of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology, including multi-omic single-nuclei sequencing and are developing approaches for how to utilize this technology to study extracellular vesicles. Her research program includes large-scale methylome-wide association studies (MWAS) and transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS), that are used individually and integrated with other omic data.