Martin Widschwendter
Visiting Professor
E-mail: martin.widschwendter@ki.se
Visiting address: BioMedicum A4, Solnavägen 9, 17165 Solna
Postal address: K6 Kvinnors och barns hälsa, K6 NOGRH Gemzell Danielsson, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- Visiting Professor of women’s cancer at the Department of Women’s and
Children’s Health from July 1, 2020.
Primary position: Professor of Women’s Cancer at the University of
Innsbruck, Austria, and the University College London, UK.
Research
- Professor Martin Widschwendter’s research focuses on cancers of the breast,
uterus, cervix, and ovaries, with his long-term goal being the elimination of
women-specific cancers. His research spans four areas: mechanisms of disease,
risk assessment, prevention, and early diagnosis. His mechanisms of disease
research comprises, amongst other considerations, why the BRCA1 gene leads to
a much higher risk particularly for breast cancer, and how women with BRCA1
have elevated levels of progesterone during certain phases of the menstrual
cycle.
His risk assessment research focuses on epigenetic markers in cervical
samples and has been carried out with a number of collaborators including
Joakim Dillner’s research team at KI. Professor Widschwendter has an
established collaboration project with Kristina Gemzell Danielsson’s
research team at KI regarding the use of progesterone antagonists as
potential prevention. His research on early diagnosis focuses on the
detection of tumour DNA in blood samples, with the aim of developing a
screening programme.
/Text: From Cell to Society, 2020/
Articles
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2023;152(11):2321-2330
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2023;152(9):1977-1988
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2023;152(6):1269-1274
- Article: CLINICAL EPIGENETICS. 2022;14(1):150
- Article: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY. 2022;40(33):3828-3838
- Article: GENOME MEDICINE. 2022;14(1):116
- Article: GENOME MEDICINE. 2022;14(1):64
- Article: GENOME BIOLOGY. 2022;23(1):52
- Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2022;13(1):448
- Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2022;13(1):449
- Article: ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2021;5(6):e182
All other publications
- Review: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2023;152(6):1060-1068
- Corrigendum: GENOME MEDICINE. 2022;14(1):76
- Corrigendum: GENOME BIOLOGY. 2022;23(1):142