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Ksenia Boriskina has been working as specialist and senior physician in clinical department for allogeneic stem cell transplantation and cell therapy (CAST) at Karolinska University Hospital since 2013. Ksenia started her career at Karolinska in 2010-2011 as a part of her residency program that she successfully accomplished at the Tartu University (Estonia). Ksenia has taken hands on patients treated with CAR-T cells in standard of care and clinical trials, as well as she handled other cell therapies such as treatments with mesenchymal stromal cells, virus specific T celles and decidual cells. She has worked in the field of hematopoietic stemcell transplantation (HSCT) since 2008.
Ksenia has been interested in neurological, cognitive and psychological complication both after HSCT and CAR-T therapy for a while now. She is going to work with combining evaluation of neuropsychological testing with biological analyses and advanced neuroimaging for better understanding of such threatening complications as ICANS and severe fatigue.