Prof Johan Malmström

Professor Johan Malmström is a principle investigator of the infection medicine proteomics group at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. He is also a node director at the national infrastructure in biological mass spectrometry (BioMS) and is one of the principle investigators in the Lund University sepsis and bacterial resistance alliance (SEBRA).

His research aims at developing and applying proteomics techniques to characterize the molecular mechanisms behind invasive bacterial diseases with a particular focus on Streptococcus pyogenes. In recent work, Johan Malmström has together with colleagues developed new techniques in structural mass spectrometry to investigate the composition and structure of protein complexes formed between S. pyogenes surface proteins and human host proteins. Ongoing work is focused on elucidating the relationship between the structure of such cross-species protein complexes and epitopes of relevance for a protective immune response.

Prof Malmström obtained his PhD in cellular and molecular proteomics in 2003 followed by postdoctoral training in USA and Switzerland. After the postdoctoral training, Johan Malmström co-founded Biognosys AG, prior to returning to Lund University in 2010.