Research centres
A research centre at Karolinska Institutet is a focused concentration in a certain scientific area, which is flexible in its organisation and limited in time. Research centres aim to create a dynamic collaboration across scientific areas, departments, and organisational boundaries in Sweden or internationally.
It is the Committee for Research that decides on the criteria for establishing, monitoring, and closing of research centres within KI or centres run by KI. Usually, it is also the committee that examines the application to establish a new research centre at KI. Regarding the formation of more comprehensive, strategic research centres in collaboration with other organisations, the decision is made by KI’s President. The Committee for Research may, however, be responsible for the administrative preparation of this decision on behalf of the President. A research centre at KI can also be established through targeted funding from, for example, one of the national research councils.
National and international centres at KI
- Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Health
- Center for Neuromusculoskeletal Restorative Medicine
- International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility, INCF
- Karolinska Comprehensive Cancer Center
- National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, NASP
- National Pandemic Centre, NPC
Centres in collaboration with other stakeholders
- Aging Research Center, ARC
- Center for the Advancement of Integrated Medical and Engineering Sciences, AIMES
- Centre for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CBB
- Center for Culture, Cognition and Health
- Centre for Gender Medicine, CfG
- Center for Hematology and Regenerative Medicine, HERM
- Center for Infectious Medicine, CIM
- Center for Innovative Medicine, CIMED
- Center for Molecular Medicine, CMM
- Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, KIND
- Centre for Psychiatry Research
- Center for Translational Microbiome Research, CTMR
- Centre for Quantum Life Science
- Health Informatics Centre, HIC
- Karolinska ATMP Center
- MedTechLabs
- Precision Medicine Centre Karolinska, PMCK
- Quality Register Centre – QRC Stockholm (in Swedish)
- Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics, CHE
- Swedish Radiation Emergency Medicine Centre, KcRN (in Swedish)
- Theranostics Trial Center
Centres set up by targeted external funding
- Centre for Allergy Research, CFA
- Center for Cellular Cancer Therapy, C3T
- Centre for Cluster Headache
- Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine
- Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, OCIM
- NextGenNK – center for the development of next-generation NK cell-based immunotherapy
Centres within KI
- Breast Cancer Theme Center, BRECT
- Centre for Alzheimer Research
- Center for Cervical Cancer Elimination
- Centre for Eating Disorders Innovation, CEDI
- Centre for Health Crises
- Center for Hearing and Communication Research (in Swedish)
- Centre for Infectious Disease Research, CID
- Centre for Malaria Research
- Centre for Nutrition
- Centre for Pharmacoepidemiology
- Centre for Research and Education in Sports Trauma, CIFU (in Swedish)
- Centre for Resuscitation Research (in Swedish)
- Centre for Social Sustainability, CSS
- Centre for Trauma Research
- Centre for Tuberculosis Research
- KI Psychiatric Genomics Institute
- Medical Case Centre, MCC
- Medical Management Centre, MMC
- Scientific Center for Advanced Pediatric Audiology, SCAPA
Research networks at KI
KI has a number of research networks, which is a more loose collaboration form than a formal research centre. The puropse of these networks is to promote knowledge exchange and collaboration within each research area, regardless of location or organisational affiliation. The networks gather both preclinical and clinical researchers. Some of the networks are to a certain extent faculty funded, others are not. There are also regional and national networks that are coordinated by researchers at KI.