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. Regarding the formation of more comprehensive, strategic research centres in collaboration with other organisations, the decision is made by the KI’s President. The Committé for Research may, however, be responsible for the administrative preparation of this decision on behalf of the President.
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
- Center for Translational Microbiome Research, CTMR
- Centre for Psychiatry Research
- Health Informatics Centre, HIC
- Karolinska ATMP Centre
- 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)
Centres set up by targeted external funding
- Centre for Allergy Research, CFA
- 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
- Centre for Eating Disorders Innovation, CEDI
- Centre for Health Crises
- Centre for HIV Research
- 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
- Karolinska Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis Centre, KNIMS
- KI Psychiatric Genomics Institute
- Medical Case Centre, MCC
- Medical Management Centre, MMC
Internal research networks
KI has a number of internal research networks, which is a "looser" collaboration form than a formal research centre. The puropse of these networks is to promote cooperation and knowledge exchange within each research area or alike, regardless of location or home department. The networks othen gather both preclinical and clinical researchers. Some of these networks are to a certain extent faculty funded, others are not.