Jan Andersson

Jan Andersson

Affiliated to Research | Professor/Senior Physician
Telephone: +46852482904
Visiting address: Alfred Nobels allé 8, plan 7, 14152 Huddinge
Postal address: H7 Medicin, Huddinge, H7 CIM Brighenti, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • Jan Andersson is Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge since 1 December 1998.

Research

  • Since 1981, when the first cases of AIDS appeared in the USA, 60 million people have been infected with HIV worldwide, and a total of 25 million people have died of AIDS.

    Today, the disease is most widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa. Heterosexual transmission is now predominant, and young women are being hit particularly hard.

    Disease-modifying drugs have been developed, and although these do not yet offer a cure, they can radically prolong the life of those affected. About 1 in 300 of those infected are able to keep their HIV infection under control, and understanding how their immunity works can form the basis of a future vaccine and attempts at a cure with immunity-boosting biological treatments.

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Employments

  • Affiliated to Research, Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, 2026-2028
  • Professor/Senior Physician, Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, 1999-2018
  • Professor/Senior Physician, University Common, Karolinska Institutet, 2013-2013
  • Professor/Senior Physician, Central Administration, Karolinska Institutet, 2011-2012

Supervision

  • Supervision to doctoral degree

    • Sayma Rahman, “Local immune responses in tuberculosis: Cytolytic effector functions at the site of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection”, 2013
    • Senait Ashenafi Betemariam, “Studies of immune responses in human tuberculosis”, 2013

  • Supervision to licentiate degree

    • Arina Samarina, “Cell mediated immune responses in tissue from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis”, 2005

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