Principal investigator
Emma Lundberg
Spatial proteomics and subcellular protein organisation.
Lundberg works at the intersection of microscopy, proteomics and AI, on the question of where proteins actually are inside a cell. Her group produced the first spatial subcellular map of human cells (Science 2017), turning subcellular localisation from a property described case by case into something measured systematically across the proteome.
Since then the lab has identified around 300 previously unknown cell-cycle proteins and built data-driven maps of cell architecture (Nature 2021 and 2025), alongside foundational computer-vision tools for image-based proteomics at scale.
She directs the Cell Atlas of the Human Protein Atlas, and is Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Pathology at Stanford University and Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where she took her MSc in bioengineering and her PhD in biotechnology.
She has served as Secretary General of the Human Proteome Organization and advises open-science efforts including the Human Cell Atlas, UniProt, Reactome and the CZI AI Virtual Cell, and has twice been named among the top future leaders in biopharma and omics.