Interviews and portraits – meet our researchers
More than 5,000 researchers and doctoral students have their workplace at Karolinska Institutet. Here you can get to know some of them. The interviews and feature articles bellow have previously been published in our magazine Medical Science or online on KI News.
Portrait of a researcher
Jan Albert: “HIV is an infectious disease like any other”
Georgios Belibasakis: A glimpse into another world
Martin Bergö addresses the debate about vitamin pills
Petter Brodin wants to understand your immune system
Cynthia Bulik: She wants us to see the biology
Marie Carlén: She wants to decode the brain
Gonçalo Castelo-Branco wants to understand MS
Tore Curstedt helped millions of preterm babies
Anna Mia Ekström wants justice
Maria Eriksdotter is fighting ageism
Patrik Ernfors wants to understand pain
Fang Fang gives remote assistance
Óscar Fernández-Capetillo: He wants to have fun
AI researcher Max Gordon: "AI can do the boring things"
Susanne Guidetti improves the lives of people with stroke
Emily Holmes: A picture is worth a thousand words
Irene Jensen: She wants to see more good managers
Inger Kull studies young people with allergy
Claudia Lampic: Family regardless of kinship
Nobel Laureate Tomas Lindahl: “I had an excellent group at KI”
Helena Lindgren: Focus on birth injuries
Johan Lundberg: The reawakening of depression research
Anna Martling counts every step to cure colorectal cancer
Ali Mirazimi is fighting the virus
Thomas Perlmann is passionate about the Nobel Prize
Richard Rosenquist Brandell in the golden age for geneticists
Psychiatrist Cristian Rück: "A zero vision for suicide is not possible"
Rickard Sandberg is a molecular codebreaker
Johan von Schreeb wants to create order in chaos
Kirsty Spalding: Bord at work? Fat chance
Carl Johan Sundberg refuses to sit still
Stefan Swartling Peterson cares about the children
Carol Tishelman wants us to talk about death
Ylva Trolle Lagerros: Hunger can be an ever-present sensation
Elisabete Weiderpass: Preventing cancer in all corners of the world
Yvonne Wengström uses exercise as medicine
Rikard Wicksell: "Pain should not be allowed to dominate your life"
Researchers on a topic
Per Andrén treats children with tics online
Elias Arnér: More diseases linked to defects in selenium proteins
Lena Berg: “Sometimes you need to be left alone to work”
Yvonne Brandberg: “He would never start a family”
Ken Chien on Moderna and the mRNA vaccine
Liv Eidsmo learned to appreciate the critics
Kerstin Erlandsson on Swedish midwifery in Africa
Emma Frans on why we should be more critical
Emma Fransson: What role does bacteria play in a delivery?
Cecilia Fridén: Should exercise be adapted to a woman’s menstrual cycle?
Katarina Görts-Öberg on hypersexuality
Viktor Kaldo: Can AI be useful to psychologists?
Konstantina Kilteni: Why can't you tickle yourself?
Eva Kosek supports those with fibromyalgia pain
Carola Lidén: Less allergies with nickel-free coins
Sten Linnarsson: Now we get to keep tabs on our cells
Anna Martling: “It’s when you meet the patient that the circle closes”
Gerald McInerney: Antibodies against the coronavirus
Peder Olofsson: Vagus nerve activation the anti-inflammatory treatment of the future?
Christoffer Rahm wants to take action before it is too late
Kenny Rodriguez-Wallberg: "It was a true miracle”
Alexander Rozental keeps to the deadline
Ineke Samson: “Covert stuttering can create a great deal of anxiety”
Shervin Shahnavaz: "We can finally offer young people timely help”
Maria Smitmanis Lyle studies psychiatric self-admission
Anders Sönnerborg: "We struggled together for six months"
Per Tornvall: ICBT may help to heal a broken heart
Fredrik Ullén on brain anc culture
Anna Wredenberg studies mitochondria
The beauty of the smallest things
Bringing art and science together
Three researchers fighting ignorance
When nature provides the model
Three researchers on innovation
Nobel inspiration – a tale of three researchers
They see the value of nature
Three researchers: Safe sport their goal
Foot on the brake – about road safety
Three researchers: Passion instead of pension
Exosomes: High hopes for small bubbles
They see the power of music
Solving really cold cases
They are counting on our health
Liver in test tube replaces animal testing
With death as a colleague
Three researchers who experiment on themselves
Introducing some of our Professors
Kirsty Spalding is researching how fat cells impact disease in humans
Jan Ellenberg is studying the molecular processes of cell division
Photo: Fredrik Persson Installation ceremony 2024
Meet our new professors
The immune system of the airways, AI in healthcare, and the prevention of common diseases and accidents are some of the research areas that the new professors at Karolinska Institutet are interested in. Every October, it is time for the Professors’ installation ceremony in Aula Medica.