Magnus Olsson

Magnus Olsson

Lecturer | Docent
Visiting address: Enheten för radiografi, Alfred Nobels Allé 10, 14152 Huddinge
Postal address: H9 Klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik, H9 CLINTEC Radiografi, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • Magnus Olsson received his Ph.D. degree in Molecular Cell Biology in 2003 from the lab of Prof. Peter Ekblom at Lund University. In 2004 he joined as a post doc in the lab of Prof. Zhivotovsky at Karolinska Institutet. From 2008 to 2023 he worked as a Senior Research Specialist conducting research in the areas of programed cell death and redox biology. Magnus became Associate Professor/Docent in Toxicology at KI in 2017. He is also Core facility manager at the Institute of environmental medicine (IMM).

Research

    • Profiling of factors secreted in the course of programed cell death (PCD).
    • Associations between fatty acid metabolism and neuronal differentiation, especially with respect to the block in cell specialization that underlies neuroblastoma malignancy.

Teaching

  • Serves as course leader in the global Master's Programme in Toxicology, the Bachelor Programme in Biomedicine and the Programme in Radiography.

    Currently co-supervisor for one PhD student. Main-supervisor for two PhD-students up to the defence of their theses. Co-supervisor for two PhD-students up to the defence of their theses. 

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Employments

  • Lecturer, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2017

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