Magnus Nilsson

Magnus Nilsson

Professor/Senior Physician | Docent
Visiting address: Hälsovägen, Enheten för kirurgi C1:77, 14186 Stockholm
Postal address: H9 Klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik, H9 CLINTEC Kirurgi och onkologi, 141 52 Huddinge
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About me

  • Professor of Surgery at the Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology

    Magnus Nilsson was born in Lund in 1968 and studied medicine at KI, graduating in 1992. He became a specialist in surgery in 2000 and has above all worked at Karolinska University Hospital where he is a Senior Physician at the Department of Upper Abdominal Diseases today. He served as the Head of the Section of Upper Abdominal Diseases at the Gastrocentrum in 2007–2014.

    Magnus Nilsson earned his PhD at KI in 2004 and became a Docent in 2011. Since 2014, he is been Head of the Division of Surgery and since 2022 the Division of Surgery and Oncology, at the Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC) at Karolinska Institutet. Since 2017 he also serves as Vice-Chairman of CLINTEC. He was the Chairman of the Swedish Association for Upper Abdominal Surgery (SFÖAK) 2015-2017 and is currently the Editor-in Chief of the international peer-reviewed journal Diseases of the Esophagus. Magnus Nilsson was appointed Professor of Surgery at Karolinska Institutet on 1 July 2017.

Research

  • Mainly clinical and translational research within the fields of gastric and oesophageal cancer. He has led, and still leads, several trials addressing perioperative chemo- and chemoradiotherapy for oesophageal and gastro-esophageal junctional cancers. In the last years clinical and translational research efforts have also been directed towards new treatments for peritoneal metastases in gastric cancer.

Teaching

  • Magnus Nilsson has extensive experience of teaching on all university levels. He is since 2017 responsible for the teaching within the subject area of surgery for undergraduate medical students at Karolinska Institutet.

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Grants

  • Two studies carried out in a Nordic research network on cancers of the esophagus or upper stomach where the type of treatment given for curative purposes is determined by lottery.
    Swedish Cancer Society
    1 January 2018
  • Two studies carried out in a Nordic research network on cancers of the esophagus or upper stomach where the type of treatment given for curative purposes is determined by lottery.
    Swedish Cancer Society
    1 January 2017
  • Two studies with a draw between different treatment concepts for potentially curable cancers in the esophagus or upper stomach
    Swedish Cancer Society
    1 January 2016
  • Two studies with a draw between different treatment concepts for potentially curable cancers in the esophagus or upper stomach
    Swedish Cancer Society
    1 January 2015
  • Two studies with a draw between different treatment concepts for potentially curable cancers in the esophagus or upper stomach
    Swedish Cancer Society
    1 January 2014

Employments

  • Professor/Senior Physician, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2017-

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2011
  • Doctor Of Philosophy, Dept of Surgical Science, Karolinska Institutet, 2004
  • University Medical Degree, Karolinska Institutet, 1992

Supervisor

  • Yun Du, Ph.D., Karolinska Institute, Sweden, 2023

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