Ronny Wickström

Adjunct professor of Neuropaediatrics at the Department of Women’s and
Children’s Health as of 1 March 2022.
Primary position: Senior Consultant at Karolinska University Hospital.

Ronny Wickström is a paediatric neurologist and conducts clinical research
on inflammation of the child brain in order to understand the part
inflammation plays in diseases and conditions such as viral infections,
autoimmunity, demyelinating diseases, epilepsy and post-traumatic injury. The
aim is to pave the way for improved treatments that will give rise to fewer
and milder brain injuries.
One line of Wickström’s research involves the role of inflammation in
prolonged epileptic seizures that are difficult to control and harmful to the
brain. Amongst other responsibilities, he leads the Swedish arm of an
international project to establish a biobank for these cases. He is also
involved in clinical drug studies, including phase III studies on new drugs
for demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis, MS, and neuromyelitis
optica, NMO.
Ronny Wickström helped to set up the recently opened Epilepsy Centre
Karolinska, which gathers preclinical and clinical epilepsy research at KI
and Karolinska University Hospital, and ties this research to epilepsy care.