Trial Committee - Neo-ACT

The Swedish Neo-ACT steering committee consists of the following individuals:

  • Jana de Boniface (Overall coordinating investigator), Associate Professor, Department of medical epidemiology and biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet 171 77 Stockholm and Department of Surgery, Capio St. Göran’s Hospital, Stockholm.
  • Yvonne Wengström (Coordinating Investigator exercise), Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
  • Renske Altena (Coordinating Investigator oncology/toxicity/translational research), PhD, Docent, Department of Oncoloty-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Överläkare i onkologi och internmedicin, Docrates Cancersjukhus, Stockholm.
  • Martina Rossland (PhD student, coordinator exercise), Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
  • Lea Stark (PhD student), Department of medical epidemiology and biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet 171 77 Stockholm, and Department of Surgery, Capio St. Göran’s Hospital, Stockholm.
  • Peeter Karihtala (national coordinator Finland), Professor, Research Director at Helsinki University Hospital, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Finland
  • Frankie Brown (national coordinator Scotland), PhD, Lecturer in Exercise Physiology, Sport, Health & Exercise Sciences (SEHS), School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland
  • Iain Gallagher (co-Investigator Scotland), PhD, Health & Exercise Sciences (SEHS), School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland
  • Eva Zopf (national coordinator Australia), PhD, Exercise Scientist and Head of the Cancer Exercise Lab, Cabrini Cancer Institute, Cabrini Health, Melbourne, Australia
  • Marios Tasoulis (national coordinator UK/England), MD, PhD, Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon & Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust & The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
  • Elena Leinert (national coordinator Germany), MD, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
  • Thorsten Kühn (national coordinator Germany), professor, chairman of EUBREAST, University of Ulm and Die Filderklinik, Germany

Advisory board

  • Johan Hartman (pathology), Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Dept. of Oncology-Pathology
  • Sophia Zackrisson (radiology), Professor, Skåne University Hospital Malmö and Lund University
  • Robert Szulkin (trial statistician), PhD, Scandinavian Development Services, Danderyd, Sweden
  • Åsa Magnusson (patient representative), Swedish Breast Cancer Association (Bröstcancerförbundet)"

Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB)

  • Beatrice Melin, Professor, Department of Diagnostics and Intervention, Umeå University
  • John Öhrvik, Professor, Centre for Clinical Research, County of Västmanland
  • Eva Haglind, Professor Emerita, Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University hospital
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27-01-2025