Margareta Wilhelm

Margareta Wilhelm is an Associate Professor of Tumor Biology at the
Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell biology. 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 organoids to model tumor
development.

Docent in Tumor Biology
Program Director research education program in Tumor Biology and Oncology 

Teacher Biomedicine Bachelor program