Ingrid Lundberg, Senior Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet

Doctor Ingrid Lundberg is a rheumatologist and senior professor in rheumatology at Karolinska Institutet.

Dr I. Lundberg has for more than 30 years worked to improve knowledge of the autoimmune disease, idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, or shortly myositis, with the aim to improve treatment and life for patients living with this disease.
Dr I. Lundberg established a myositis clinic with a dedicated multidisciplinary team in 1993 at Karolinska University Hospital. In this clinic patients from Sweden as well as from other countries are cared for and followed. This clinic has formed the basis of a translational research project with the aim to achieve improved understanding of molecular mechanisms that lead to muscle weakness and immune reactivity in patients with myositis. She has been the supervisor of 34 PhD students.

Dr Lundberg and her team have worked to understand the pathophysiology of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and in particular the subgroups associated with different autoantibodies with a specific focus on anti-Jo1 (HisRS) autoantibodies. In addition, Dr Lundberg and her research group detected a new myositis specific autoantibody, anti-FHL1 autoantibodies that are associated with a severe phenotype of myositis.

Dr Lundberg is member of a team that founded and developed an international, multidisciplinary, web-based myositis register, MYONET, now with more than 6 000 patients from 30 centers world-wide enrolled. She is the PI of the International Myositis Classification Criteria Project (IMCCP) published in 2017 and PI of the ongoing revision of these criteria.