Programme KI North Conference 2026
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Programme
Annika Östman Wernerson, President at Karolinska Institutet
Carl Johan Sundberg, Campus Vice President KI North
All Heads of the Departments at KI Campus North
Mats J. Olsson, Department of Clinical Neuroscience (CNS - K8)
Tomas Jernberg, Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital (KI DS - D1)
Marie Hasselberg, Department of Global Public Health (GPH - K9)
Sabine Koch, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME - C7)
Helena Harris, Department of Medicine, Solna (MedS - K2)
Rebecka Hultgren, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery (MMK - K1)
Ola Larsson, Department of Oncology-Pathology (OnkPat- K7)
Kristina Gemzell Danielsson, Department of Women's and Children's Health (KBH - K6)
Anton Lager, Associate Professor, Department of Global Public Health
Anna Maria Ekström, Professor, Senior Physician, Department of Global Public Health
Sandra Eloranta, Senior lecturer Biostatistics, Department of Medicine, Solna, and Director of Clinicum
Clinicum - Your Partner i Study Design, Data and Analysis
Pontus Nauclér, Professor, Senior Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Solna
Christian Buchli, Docent, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery
Transforming Clinical Research Through Electronic Health Records
Victoria Dyring, Patient and Science Reporter SVT
11:00 Joining Forces at KI North - Parallel Workshops on Different Organs and Systems
This programme item lets you choose between sessions, suitable for everyone—including non-researchers.
Selected posters from PhD students from all departments will be presented in Aula Medica.
Moderators
Rebecka Hultgren, Adjunct Professor, Head of Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery
Bahira Shahim, Assistant Professor, Docent, Department of Medicine, Solna
FoUUi Directors
Olof Akre, Karolinska University Hospital
Erik Näslund, Danderyd Hospital
Carl Sellgren Majkowitz, SLSO
Johanna Furuhjelm, Operations Director, Department of Clinical Neuroscience
Magnus Boman, Professor, Department of Medicine, Solna
Helge Brandberg, Postdoctoral researcher, Cardiologist, Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital
Pia Lundman, Senior Lecturer, Senior Physician, Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital
A presentation of Education at KI North Departments
Hanna Jansson, Principal Researcher, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics
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Madelen Lek, Assistant Senior Lecturer, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics
More than medicine: Entrepreneurial tools for professional practice
Eight short presentations on especially interesting breakthroughs! Meet one researcher from each department.
- CNS, Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience, Andrea Varrone, Dopamine transporter PET Imaging for the diagnosing of Parkinson's disease
- GPH, Dept. of Global Public Health, Renee Gardner, Finding the Causes That Matter: What Family-Based Studies Teach Us About Prevention
- KBH, Dept. of Women's and Children's Health, Petter Brodin, Human immune system development
- KI DS, Dept. of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital, Charlotte Thålin, Harnessing IgA for Protection Against Respiratory Infections
- LIME, Dept. of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Ulrik Kihlbom, Beyond the Algorithm: Towards a Relational Ethics of Consent in AI-Driven Precision Medicine
- MedS, Dept. of Medicine, Solna, Taras Kreslavskiy, Uncovering novel types and unexpected functions of unconventional T cells
- MMK,Dept. of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Anna Martling, ALASCCA – Precision Medicine in Practice: How an Old Drug Is Finding a New Role in Colorectal Cancer
- OnkPat, Dept. of Oncology-Pathology, Laura Orellana, Discovering and rationalizing cancer mutations through biomolecular simulations - from the computer to animal models
Moderator
Vladimir Carli, Senior Lecturer, Senior Physician, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics
Panelists
Jacob Widaeus, PhD student, Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital
Leonard Hartmanis, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Oncology-Pathology
Henrike Häbel, Postdoc/Statistician, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics
Marcus Carlsson, Professor/Senior physician, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery
Keira Melican, Associate professor (Docent), Department of Medicine, Solna
Anja Winter, PhD student, Department of Clinical Neuroscience
Therese Lind, Head of administration, Department of Global Public Health
Carl Johan Sundberg, Campus Vice President for KI Campus North
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