• Understanding how voltage-gated ion channels function and why mutations in voltage-gated ion channels cause diseases, such as cardiac arrhythmia.
• Developing cures and treatments of diseases caused by mutations in voltage-gated ion channels.
• Understand how glutamate transporters function and how they contrubte to neuronal death during stroke and ischemia.
• Determining structure and functiion relationship of voltage-gated proton channels (Hv1)
• Determining strucutre and function relationship of cardiac potassium channels KCNQ1 (Kv7.1) and IKs channels

• Polyunsaturated fatty acid analogs act antiarrhythmically on the cardiac IKs channel.
• KCNE1 divides the voltage sensor movement in KCNQ1/KCNE1 channels into two steps.
• Hydrophobic plug functions as a gate in voltage-gated proton channels.
• Link to PuMed publications by Dr Larsson