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From Stanford’s sunlit engineering quad to SciLifeLab’s brisk knowledge hub in Stockholm, Emma Lundberg works across two distinct innovation cultures. She sees lessons for Sweden in Silicon Valley’s close links between academia, investors, and industry, but also strengths at home that should not be lost.

Successful businessman and former chairman of AstraZeneca, Leif Johansson, has accumulated vast experience and knowledge about international competition, leadership, business development, and entrepreneurship, not least when it comes to science-driven industries like the life science industry.

Thomas Karikari’s career has taken him across three continents: from Ghana to the UK and Sweden, and then to the US. Now an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and one of Nature Index’s “rising stars in ageing research”, he is helping move Alzheimer’s blood biomarkers beyond individual markers and towards a more complete picture of disease biology.

Lionel Leck's research focuses on pediatric cancer, particularly neuroblastoma – one of the most commonly diagnosed childhood cancers with a poor prognosis.

Anna Carbery's research looks at how we can implement AI-driven peptide design to make new cancer therapeutics. 

Hong Yang is a postdoctoral researcher at SciLifeLab and KTH Royal Institute of Technology under the mentorship of Professor Dr. Adil Mardinoglu.