Karin Wallander
E-mail: karin.wallander@ki.se
Visiting address: J6:20 BioClinicum, Akademiska stråket 1, 17164 Solna
Postal address: K7 Onkologi-Patologi, K7 Forskning Haglund, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- My main interest is oncogenetics. I am a specialist medical doctor in clinical genetics, focusing on hereditary cancer syndromes. After defending my thesis at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, I spent 6 months at IDIBAPS, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, performing CRISPR-Cas9 knock-in. Since then, I have joined Felix Haglund de Flon's research group as a post-doc, evaluating whole-genome and whole-transcriptome sequencing for sarcoma diagnostics. Cancerfonden (the Swedish cancer society) has awarded me a full-time three year post-doc fellowship for this.
Selected publications
- Article: CANCERS. 2024;16(22):3816
- Article: CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH. 2024;30(12):2647-2658
- Article: CANCERS. 2023;15(4):1160
- Article: HEREDITARY CANCER IN CLINICAL PRACTICE. 2021;19(1):23
- Article: PLOS ONE. 2021;16(2):e0245488
- Conference publication: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS. 2020;28(SUPPL 1):526-527
- Review: JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. 2019;286(2):118-136
Articles
- Journal article: ESMO OPEN. 2023;8(1):101095
- Article: HEREDITARY CANCER IN CLINICAL PRACTICE. 2021;19(1):46
- Article: GENES CHROMOSOMES & CANCER. 2019;58(11):775-782
- Article: GENETICS IN MEDICINE. 2018;20(4):452-457
- Article: NEUROPEDIATRICS. 2014;45(6):362-370
All other publications
- Conference publication: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS. 2024;32:549-550
- Review: JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. 2023;294(6):690-707
- Conference publication: KLINISCHE PADIATRIE. 2023;235(3):193
- Doctoral thesis: 2021
- Corrigendum: HEREDITARY CANCER IN CLINICAL PRACTICE. 2021;19(1):47
- Conference publication: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS. 2018;26:587-588
Grants
- Research mobility fellowship, post doc exchangeEuropean joint programme for rare diseases, Training and support program10 January 2023 - 30 June 2023
- Functional studies of hereditary causes for cancerSwedish Cancer Society1 January 2023 - 31 December 2025
- Post doc exhangeSwedish Society of Medicine10 June 2022 - 31 December 2023
- MMK research fund for laboratory costsKarolinska Institutet1 January 2021 - 31 December 2021
- Hereditary predisposition and prognostic prediction in cancerRobert Lundberg Memorial Foundation1 January 2020 - 31 December 2020
- Combined position researcher - resident doctorStockholm County Council1 January 2018 - 30 November 2022
Employments
- Affiliated to Research, Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-
- Specialist MD, Clinical geentics and genomics, Clinical genetics and genomics, Karolinska University Hospital, 2022-
- Acting chief of resedence doctors, Clincial genetics and genomics, Karolinska University Hospital, 2024-2024
- Resident MD, Clinical genetics and genomics, Karolinska University Hospital, 2014-2018
Degrees and Education
- Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, 2022
Leadership and responsibility assignments
- Planning of the schedule for all medical doctors at Department of clincal genetics and genomics, Clinical assignment planner, Clinical genetics and genomics, Karolinska University Hospital, 2025-
- Course coordinator, Advanced course, Karolinska Institutet, 2024-2024
Visiting research fellowships
- Postdoc, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, 2025-2025
Journal reviewing
- IJMS, Open peer review, 2025-2025
- BJM reports, Open peer review, 2024-2024
- BMC, Open peer review, 2023-2023
- Cancers, MDPI, Open peer review, 2022-2024
Conference/event participation
- Poster presenter of own accepted abstract, Clincial Cancer Genomics Conference, International conference in Dublin. My poster was selected for oral poster pitch., 2025
- Participant, XXXV course on musculuoskeletal pathology, International course of mesenchymal tumor pathology, radiology and oncology. Member of winning team at final examination competition., 2024
- Chair, OnkPat kickoff, Organising comittee for the annual meeting for the Oncology-Pathology department, including chairing one session, 2024
- Poster presenter of own accepted abstract, Annual CTOS meeting, Connective tissue oncology society, national conference in Dublin 2023, Evaluation of the use of WGTS in routine diagnostics for bone and soft tissue tumors, 2023
- Poster presenter of own accepted abstract, ESMO Sarcoma & Rare Cancers Congress, Evaluating the impact of WGTS in routine diagnostics for bone and soft tissue tumors, 2023
- Poster presenter of own accepted abstract, Cutting Edge Implementation of Precision Medicine in Europe, Organiser: Journal of internal medicine, Detectable cell-free tumour DNA in gasto-oesophageal cacner patients implies shorter survival and higher risk of recurrence, 2022
- Expert panel, Rapport, Sveriges television, Interviewed as medical expert in news segment about gender differences in cancer incidence, 2022
- Poster presenter of own accepted abstract, Molecular diagnostics, International conference Lisboa, Liquid biopsy for gastric cancer, 2018
- Poster presenter of own accepted abstract, ESHG Kopenhagen, Whole-genome sequencing for patients with three primary tumors, 2017
- Poster presenter of own accepted abstract, KI Cancer retreat, Whole-genome sequencing for patients with three primary tumors, 2017