Carlos-Filipe Pereira

Department of Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy

Lund University

Carlos-Filipe Pereira
Assistant Professor

I am an assistant professor in Molecular Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Lund University and group leader of the Cell Reprogramming in Hematopoiesis and Immunity Laboratory. I have long held an interest in understanding how cell identity is acquired, maintained and ultimately modified or reversed. During my PhD, I have made my first contributions to the cellular reprogramming field by establishing cell fusion and heterokaryons as a new approach to study reprogramming mechanisms towards pluripotency. Of note I implicated the essential role of Polycomb repression in reprogramming. Then, during my postdoc, I brought cellular reprogramming concepts to hematopoeisis for the first time. I identified a combination of transcription factors that induces hemogenesis and established that cellular reprogramming approaches can inform the developmental specification of hematopoietic stem cells. My independent research group has now shown that cooperative transcription factor binding mediates hemogenic induction and pioneered cell fate reprogramming approaches in immunology with induced dendritic cells. This conceptual shift opens exciting opportunities to merge cellular reprogramming and cancer immunotherapy.

Publications

Hemogenic Reprogramming of Human Fibroblasts by Enforced Expression of Transcription Factors

1Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy, Lund Stem Cell Center, Lund University, 2Wallenberg Center for Molecular, Lund University, 3Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 4Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, 5Department of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 6Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

JoVE 60112

 Developmental Biology

Reprogramming Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts with Transcription Factors to Induce a Hemogenic Program

1Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2The Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 3Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 4Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 5Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

JoVE 54372

 Developmental Biology