Laila Kulsvehagen

Laila completed her undergraduate studies in Biomedical Sciences at the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany, and obtained her Master's degree in Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is currently a PhD student in the Pröbstel lab, following the International PhD Program In Biomedicine. Laila combines wet lab work with cutting-edge single cell sequencing technologies to assess the pathogenic role of B cells in autoimmune disorders. She is particularly interested in transcriptomic features of B cells in MOGAD.

MOGAD myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease Laila completed her undergraduate studies in Biomedical Sciences at Philipps University of Marburg and obtained her Master’s degree in Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam. She earned her doctoral degree in the Pröbstel lab, where she combined various methodologies, including cell-based assays and single-cell RNA sequencing technologies, to investigate the pathogenic role of B cells in autoimmune disorders.

Since October 2024, she has been working as a postdoctoral researcher in the lab. Her research focuses on the transcriptomic features of B cells in patients with MOGAD and the cross-reactive potential of the patient-derived antibodies she generated during her doctoral work.