Magnus Westgren

Magnus Westgren

Professor Emeritus
Visiting address: Hälsovägen, Enheten för obstetrik och gynekologi K65, 14186 Stockholm
Postal address: H9 Klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik, H9 CLINTEC Obstetrik o gynekologi, 141 52 Huddinge
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About me

  • Since 1990 has been an Obstetric Director at Karolinska University Hospital and he is Professor and Head of Department at Karolinska University Hospital since 2006.
    Has been the President of the Swedish Society for Perinatal Medicine and is one of the Scientific Consultants to the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare.
    Has been Scientific Supervisor for more than 15 PhD students and has published approximately 200 papers.

Research

  • From fetal tissue, it is possible to isolate fetal stem cells. These cells have special properties in regard to expansion capacity and neurological function. Our resource group have developed techniques for isolation and characterisation of fetal stem cells and we have also used these cells for intrauterine fetal stem cell transplantation. More recently, we are working on fetal stem cells in regards to tissue engineering with the aim to produce transplants for reconstructive surgery at severe congenital malformations.

Teaching

  • Specific teaching area:

    Fetal regenerative medicine
    Fetal stem cells
    Perinatology
    RH-immunization
    Ongoing tutorship:
    B Hallberg; Biochemical markers on fetal asphyxia
    E Tibladh; IUT in different animal models
    AM Jonsson; On the significance of maternal chimerism

Articles

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Employments

  • Professor Emeritus, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2025-2028
  • Professor, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2020-2023
  • Professor, Senior, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2017-2020
  • Professor/Senior Physician, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2007-2017
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 1999-2007

Supervision

  • Supervision to doctoral degree

    • Lars Thurn, Massive transfusion in relation to obstetric hemorrhage, with special attention to placenta accreta, 2019

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