Catharina Larsson

Professor in medical genetics

Resarch group leader in medical genetics within experimental translational cancer research with laboratory activities in BioClinicum

Assistant chair of the Department of oncology-pathology with task for recruitement of teaching positions

KI chairman of the reseach & educational development groupat ME clinical pathology & cancer diagnostics at Karolinska university hospital

Faculty representative in the Faculty board at KI

Education
Medical degree 1985
Dr med sci at KI 1989
Docent at KI 1999
Professor in medical genetics at KI 2001

Academic honours, awards and prizes
Erik L Fernströms prize for young medical researchers 2005
Göran Gustafssons prize in Medicine 2006
Elected member of the Nobel assembly 2006
Elected member to KVA class for medical sciences 2008
Honorary doctor of medicine at Bogomolets national medical university, Ukraine 2017

Publications

A complete list of publications can be found at the group homepage

https://ki.se/en/research/research-areas-centres-and-networks/research-groups/medical-genetics-catharina-larssons-group#tab-staff-and-contact

Supervision to doctoral degree

• Yiyi Xu, Clinical and genetic studies of papillary thyroid carcinoma: with focus on telomere maintenance and the microRNA machinery, 2025
• Yajie Yang, Uncovering metastasis biomarkers and molecular mechanisms in Merkel cell carcinoma, 2025
• Samuel Hellgren, Molecular prognostication of thyroid tumors: with special focus on TERT, 2024
• Yaxuan Liu, Evaluation of genetic cancer predisposition and potential cancer genes, 2022
• Jiwei Gao, Dissecting the roles of viral T-antigens in Merkel cell carcinoma, 2022
• Ninni Mu, Diagnostic and prognostic markers in thyroid carcinoma with focus of TERT activation., 2021
• Fredrika Svahn, Tumors of the adrenal glands: genetic and diagnostic aspects, 2021
• Johan Paulsson, Genetic and molecular characterization of follicular thyroid tumors: diagnostic and prognostic aspects, 2021
• Hao Shi, Regulation of cellular degradation pathways by viral oncoproteins and microRNAs, 2020-
• Wen-Kuan Huang, microRNA and energy metabolism in gastrointestinal tumors, 2020
• Patrick Scicluna, Differential microRNA and metabolic expressions in neuroendocrine and cervical carcinomas, 2020
• Satendra Kumar, Connecting viral oncoproteins to microRNA, autophagy and metabolism in Merkel cell carcinoma, 2019
• Robin Fröbom, Translational investigations of novel and current antitumoral therapies in gastrointestinal stromal tumor, 2019
• Omid Fotouhi, Molecular aspects of tumor development and treatment for small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors, 2017
• Limin Ma, Activity and mechanism of action of histone deacetylase inhibitors in synovial sarcoma, 2016
• Adam Stenman, Genetic and molecular background of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma, 2016
• Anna Kwiecinska, Characterisation of molecular alterations in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with respect to transformation, progression and prognostic markers, 2015
• Deniz Özata, Genomic and functional analysis of microRNAs and PIWI-interacting RNAs in human cancers, 2015
• Pinar Akcakaya, Molecular mechanisms of imatinib resistance in gastrointestinal stromal tumor with focus on microRNAs, 2015
• Na Wang, Telomerase activation and its clinical implications in human thyroid tumors, 2015
• Erik Berglund, Novel aspects of the molecular biology of gastrointestinal stromal tumors, 2014
• Hong Xie, microRNA expression and function in virus-associated human cancers, 2014
• Luqman Sulaiman, Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms in primary hyperparathyroidism.., 2013
• Jan Åhlen, Markers for clinical outcome and therapy response in soft tissue sarcomas., 2013
• Andrii Dinets, Molecular aspects of post-Chornobyl and sporadic papillary thyroid carcinoma, 2013
• David Velázquez-Fernández, Insights into the transcriptomic profiling of adrenocortical tumors, 2013
• Monira Akhtar, Epigenetic mechanisms and regulatory aspects of human cancer and neural progenitor cells : implications for diagnosis and therapy, 2013
• Felix Haglund, Endocrine signaling and molecular aberrations in primary hyperparathyroidism, 2013
• Stefano Caramuta, Clinical and functional aspects of microRNA regulation in human cancers, 2012
• Anastasios Sofiadis, In search of diagnostic and prognostic markers for thyroid cancer: A proteomics approach, 2010
• Mohsen Karimi Arzenani, Genomic DNA methylation in health and disease, 2009
• Nimrod Kiss, DNA methylation and gene expression patterns in adrenal medullary tumors, 2009
• Christofer Juhlin, Molecular aspects of parathyroid tumorigenesis : With focus on parafibromin and the Wnt pathway, 2009
• JiaJing Lee, Behind the scenes of thyroid tumors: Underlying genetic mechanisms, 2007
• Emma Flordal Thelander, Genetic characterization of hematological malignancies with focus on mantle cell lymphoma, 2007
• Janos Geli, Further delineation of molecular alterations in adreno-medullary tumors, 2007
• Bying Zheng, Improved human papillomavirus DNA typing methods and biology of cervival cancer, 2006
• Theodoros Foukakis, Basic and translational studies of follicular thyroid neoplasia, 2005
• Weng-Hui Wen, Molecular cytogenetic studies of soft tissue sarcoma: with focus on prognosis and acquired events, 2005
• Petra Kjellman, Clinical and molecular studies of papillary thyroid carcinoma, with an emphasis on prognostic factors, 2004
• Stina Välimäki, Pathological growth of parathyroid glands-genetic and physiological aspects, 2003
• Andrei Alimov, Molecular genetic aspects of renal cell carcinoma development, 2003
• Andrea Villablanca, Genetic background of familial hyperparathyroidism, 2003
• Lars Forsberg, Localization and characterization of genes involved in parathyroid tumor development, 2003
• Elisabet Edström Elder, Pheochromocytoma and abdominal paraganglioma: clinical and genetic aspects, 2002
• Weng-Onn Lui, Approaches for the localizations and identifications of cancer genes, 2002
• Brita Nord, Endocrine tumor development: with special emphasis on the involvement of chromosomes 1 and 11, 2002
• Tony Frisk, Molecular genetic studies of human thyroid tumors, 2001
• Fang-Yuan Li, Genetic studies of progressive external ophthalmoplegia and familial myasthenia gravis-linkage mapping candidate gene cloning and familial myasthenia gravis: linkage analysis, candidate gene cloning and mutation detection, 2001
• Pan Yi, Cytogenetic characterization of bladder and prostate cancer, 2000-
• Fung-Ki Wong, Application of genetic analyses ion studies of syndromic and non-syndromic cleft lip and palate, 2000
• Magnus Kjellman, Genetic characterization of adrenocortical tumors, 1999
• Filip Farnebo, Molecular mechanisms of tumor development in hyperparathyroidism, 1998
• Bin Tean Teh, Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1-clinical and molecular characterization, 1997
• Catherine Phelan, Molecular genetic analysis of human breast cancer, 1997
• Jacob Lagercrantz, Isolation and characterization of genes within the region for multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 on chromosome 11q13, 1996
• Jan Zedenius, Molecular genetic alterations in human thyroid tumors, 1995
• Eitan Friedman, Molecular mechanisms of tumor development in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 related tumors, 1993
• Annika Lindblom, A molecular study on familial breast cancer, 1993
• Anna Karlbom, Molecular studies of genetic alterations involved in initiation of tumorigenesis of meningioma and progression of glioma, 1993