Hanna Björck Group

The research interest of our group lies within the field of ascending aortic disease, a silent yet potentially life-threatening condition it the aortic wall rupture or dissects. Our primary focus is to understand the molecular and genetic mechanisms behind its development, and how it relates to different types of valvular disease, but we also perform clinical outcome and prognosis studies. Together with colleagues at the thoracic surgical clinic at NKS, we have built unique patient cohort (>2,900 patients) and biobank of aortic biopsies, vascular cells, plasma/serum/blood and DNA, a tremendous resourse and source of inspiration.