Petter Brodin is Garfield Weston Chair and Professor of Paediatric Immunology at Imperial College London and Professor of Paediatric immunology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.

The Brodin lab (Human Immune Variation ) develops and applies novel experimental and computational methods to describe human immune system variation, with a particular emphasis on the immune systems of children, its development early in life, and its role in health and disease during childhood. 

Brodin established a national facility for immunomonitoring at the Swedish infrastructure hub, Science for Life Laboratory. He also established his own research program applying systems-immunology methods to the study of immune system development early in life. The Brodin lab established a birth cohort and showed differences in early life adaptation between preterm and term infants (Olin et al, Cell, 2018), the global repertoire of maternal antiviral antibodies (Pou et al, Nat. Med, 2019) as well as the imprinting effect of select colonising microbes such as bifidobacteria early in life (Henrick et al, Cell, 2021). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Brodin lab also applied its technologies for systems-level immune system analysis to understanding COVID-19 in children (Brodin, P, Immunity 2022), the immunology of MIS-C (Consiglio et al, Cell, 2020) and severe COVID-19 (Rodriguez et al, Cell Reports Med, 2020). The lab is an active member of the global COVID-Human Genetic Effort. 

Prof Brodin’s Affiliations:  

Petter Brodin, M.D., Ph.D. Honorary consultant, Paediatric Immunology

Garfield Weston Chair and Professor of Paediatric Immunology 

Department of Inflammation and Immunology 

Imperial College London, London UK 

Professor of Paediatric Immunology 

Department of Women’s and Children’s Health 

Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden