Ronny Wickström

Professor of Neuropaediatrics at the Department of Women’s and 
Children’s Health as of 5 March 2025.
Senior Consultant at Karolinska University Hospital.

Ronny Wickström is Professor of paediatric neurology at Karolinska Institutet and Senior Consultant at Karolinska University Hospital. His research group focuses on neuroimmunology and epilepsy in children and adolescents. The research in the group is mainly clinical and aims to increase the understanding of  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. In addition to academic research, he is also involved in several clinical drug studies, including phase III studies on new drugs for epilepsy and demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis, MS, and neuromyelitisoptica, NMO.
Ronny Wickström is Chair of the Swedish Epilepsy Society (national branch of the International League Against Epilepsy, ILAE) and leads the Epilepsy Centre Karolinska, which gathers preclinical and clinical epilepsy research at KI and Karolinska University Hospital, and ties this research to epilepsy care.