Tasuku Honjo – Follow your curiosity

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. During her PhD research, Kirsty Spalding had focused on a carbon-dating method to determine the age of neuronal DNA, and after four years of research, she presented her findings. During that presentation, a PhD […]

His is not a household name, but the drugs developed thanks to Danish scientist Jens Juul Holst’s research certainly are. Jens Juul Holst, a professor of medical physiology at the University of Copenhagen, is the man who made “gut” hormones famous world-wide. In 1986, he and his research team discovered glucagon-like peptide 1, known to […]

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. […]

Samuli Ripatti has a background in mathematical statistics but his research has always been focused on applying and developing biostatistical methods to address scientific questions in medical and population genetics. Last year he was appointed Director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine in Finland (FIMM) and NLS asked him about his new role and his […]

Tino Ebbers, professor in physiological measurements, receives the prize for his outstanding research at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Linköping University. Tino Ebbers is awarded the Uncle Adam Prize for ‘conducting ground-breaking and world-leading research on how to quantify and visualize physiological events in the cardiovascular system.’ He will receive a monetary […]

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. “Most of all, I am a scientist. Yes, absolutely. This is my main occupation and the one in which I have the most expertise,” says Mia Phillipson, who […]