Margareta Wilhelm

Margareta Wilhelm is an Associate Professor of Tumor Biology and a Research Group Leader at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell biology (MTC). Currently she is the Head of the Tumor Biology Division and Vice Prefekt at MTC. 

She graduated from Umeå University with a M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and received her Ph.D. in Experimental Oncology in 2003 from Karolinska Institutet, followed by post-doctoral training at the Campbell Family Cancer Research Institute, Toronto, Canada. Dr. Wilhelm has been awarded an Assistant Professor position from the Swedish Research Council and a Young Investigator Award from the Swedish Cancer Society, a Faculty funded senior researcher position from Karolinska Institutet and currently holds a senior childhood cancer research position from the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation.  

The Wilhelm lab focuses on understanding mechanisms regulating tumor
initiation and progression with a specific interest in the tumor
microenvironment and infiltrating immune cells. The lab is using transgenic
models, cellular reprogramming, stem cells, and brain organoids to model tumor 
development.

• Docent in Tumor Biology
• Program Director Research Education program in Tumor Biology and Oncology (FoTO)
• Study Director elective track in Tumor Biology, Biomedicine Master program
• Course Organizer and Teacher Biomedicine Master program
• Teacher Biomedicine Bachelor program