Caroline Dahl

I do and teach product development, taking research from bench to bedside. Inventor with background in wet-, soft- and hardware engineering from health care startups, academia and industry in the UK and Sweden.

Select grants & awards

• RISE Sustainability Fund Award for RnD and teaching electronics in Washington DC and Mumbai, India
• U.S. Department of State’s international exchange program IVLP
• Swedish winner of NASA Space Apps Challenge
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK Fully Funded Doctoral Studentship Award
• International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility Travel Award
• Collaborative Computational Project for Biomolecular Simulation Travel Award
• Gold award, International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition, MIT
• Honorary award, TekNatur, Finland
  
  Also inventor on three active patents and recipient of numerous life science commercialization awards including Supertalang 2018, SLL Innovation Fund, Business Challenge, Venture Cup and KTH's Brighter Silicon Valley program participant.
  
  Education
• DPhil, University of Oxford, 2016
• Clinical Innovation Fellow, Karolinska Institutet, Royal Institute of Technology and SLL, 2015
• Systems Biology Doctoral training, University of Oxford, 2009
• BSc Honours, University of Edinburgh, 2008

My research concerns the interaction between biology, physics and engineering, as demonstrated in e.g. mechanotransduction (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021). I do product development for physiological disorders at large. I returned to Sweden in 2014 to delve into health care and turn my bioscience and engineering background into life science applications for clinical use.

I am head of the courses Product Development in Life Sciences and Life Science Industry at KI. In my pedagogic work I make use of my experience in synthetic biology wetware, digital health software engineering from both Oxford and Microsoft Research, as well as immaterial property, regulatory and innovation processes from my roles as life science CTO and founder.