Karolinska Institutet
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Institution
As a university, KI is Sweden’s single largest centre of medical academic research and offers the country’s widest range of medical courses and programmes.
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Team
Peter George Zaphiropoulos, PhD
Medulloblastoma
Ninib Baryawno, PhD
Single-cell technologies, computational modeling and preclinical testing to study the role of the tumor microenvironment in cancer development, tumor cell dissemination and cancer resistance
Cecilia Dyberg, MD
John Inge Johnsen, PhD
Dr. John Inge Johnsen received his PhD diploma at University of Tromsö, Norway under the supervision of Professor Terje Traavik in 1994. His thesis focused on the characterization of regulatory genetic elements in polyomaviruses and the effects these regulatory regions have on host/virus interaction
Monica Nister, MD, PhD
The group led by Monica Nistér focuses on brain tumor research, especially the involvement of growth factor signaling in tumor development, mechanisms of tumor cell heterogeneity and the functional significance of cancer stem cells.