NLS Profiles

Anna Wedell, Professor and Research Group Leader of the group Inborn Errors of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Karolinska Institutet and Director of the new Precision Medicine Center Karolinska, explains how research in rare diseases has evolved due to new technologies, and emphasizes that identifying synergies is essential for diagnosing and treating these conditions.

Kirsty Spalding started her career as a neuroscientist and given a succession of casual events, she ended up studying adipose biology.

His is not a household name, but the drugs developed thanks to Danish scientist Jens Juul Holst’s research certainly are.

Anna Falk, Head of Lund University’s Center for Advanced Therapies (LU-ATMP) and principal researcher of the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet (KI) shares insights into her research, her multi-faceted job, and her vision for the future of neuroscience. Anna Falk is a molecular biologist with a PhD in neural stem cells and adult neurogenesis. […]

Despite being the co-founder of Ilya Pharma and co-director at the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), Dr. Mia Phillipson, considers herself a scientist foremost, not an entrepreneur.

Scientific research demands years, sometimes a lifetime’s worth, of persistence. One of the 2023 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine, Dr. Katalin Karikó, PhD, has shown more determination than most. Despite a series of setbacks, she forged ahead on messenger RNA research that contributed to a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus.