Peta Sjölander has been appointed new Director of MedTechLabs.

Sjölander is assistant professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health. She is also a board member of EIT Health Scandinavia.

“It’s exciting to join MedTechLabs at the same time as the Centre expands with two new research programmes, one within the field of AI and one within bioelectronic medicine,” says Peta Sjölander.

A multidisciplinary centre

MedTechLabs is a multidisciplinary centre for patient centered research within medical technology and a strategic collaboration between KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Karolinska Institutet and Region Stockholm. The goal is to contribute to the development of medical technology of importance for solving great challenges within healthcare. MedTechLabs already has a research program within Spectral CT-imaging and Endovascular Techniques.

MedTechLabs operates mainly from Bioclinicum, the new research facility at Karolinska University Hospital.

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