Vascular Endothelial Cells

Group Leader: Guttorm Haraldsen, M.D.Ph.D.

Vascular endothelial cells line the inside of blood vessels. Once activated, they follow different programs, either getting sticky and recruiting leukocytes to sites of inflammation, or leaving the vessels themselves to build new blood levels.

We focus on molecular mechanisms of endothelial cells differentiation with special emphasis on properties that enable leukocyte recruitment in immunity and inflammation, as well as those that enable vascular morphogenesis.

Link to Vascular Endothelial Cell web pages under the LIIPAT section at the UiO web