Johan Björkegren

Johan Björkegren

Senior Forskare | Docent
Besöksadress: Novum, Blickagången 6, 14157 Huddinge/Stockholm
Postadress: H7 Medicin, Huddinge, H7 Metabolism/ICMC Björkegren, 171 77 Stockholm

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Forskningsbidrag

  • MIRACLE - European Union’s Horizon Europe (European Innovation Council
    European Union’s Horizon Europe (European Innovation Council)
    1 October 2023 - 1 October 2027
  • AtheroGen - Fondation Leducq
    Fondation Leducq
    1 January 2023 - 31 December 2026
  • Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation
    1 January 2021 - 31 December 2023
  • PlaqueOmics: Novel Roles of Smooth Muscle and Other Matrix Producing Cells in Atherosclerotic Plaque Stability and Rupture
    Foundation Leducq
    1 January 2020 - 1 January 2025
  • Systems genetics to ...
    Hjärtlungfonden
    1 January 2018
  • National Institutes of Health R21
    National Institutes of Health
    1 January 2017 - 1 January 2019
  • National Institutes of Health -RO1
    National Institutes of Health
    1 January 2016 - 1 January 2020
  • 1 January 2015 - 1 January 2019
  • CADgenomics: Understanding CAD Genes, Leducq Foundation
    Transatalantic Network, the Leducq Foundation
    1 January 2014 - 1 January 2017
  • CVgenes@target -FP7 European Commission Integrated project
    FP7 -European Commission Integrated project
    1 January 2014 - 1 January 2017
  • American Heart Association - Family-Based Approach in a Minority Community Integrating Systems–Biology for Promotion of Health (FAMILIA)
    American Heart Association
    1 January 2014 - 1 January 2018
  • A systems cardiovascular approach....
    Hjärtlungfonden
    1 January 2013
  • Karolinska-AstraZeneca Center for Translation Science
    Karolinska Astra-Zeneca Center for Translation Science
    1 January 2013 - 1 January 2016
  • Center for Translation Genomics, University of Tartu
    Center for translation genomics, University of Tartu
    1 January 2012 - 1 January 2015
  • Gene-regulatory networks in CAD
    Hjärtlungfonden
    1 January 2010
  • Studier av LIM Domain Binding 2 i ateroskleros
    Vetenskapsrdet
    1 January 2008
  • The role of LIM-binding domain 2 in atherosclerosis
    Hjärtlungfonden
    1 January 2008
  • EU 6th Framework Program, with the PROCARDIS team
    EU 6th Framework Program
    1 January 2007 - 1 January 2011
  • ALF medel
    ALF medel Stockholms Läns Landsting
    1 January 2006
  • CRPs roll i ateroskleros
    Hjärtlungfonden
    1 January 2006
  • Identifiering av gener som modifierar avancerad ateroskleros genom globala genexpressionsstudier i en musmodell för ateroskleros i människa
    Vetenskapsrådet
    1 January 2005
  • Studier av CRP roll i ateroskleros
    Hjärtlungfonden
    1 January 2005
  • Identifying genes involved in regression of atherosclerosis
    Hjärtlungfonden
    1 January 2005
  • The School of Medical Bioinformatics, SDO
    The School of Medical Bioinformatics, SDO
    1 January 2005 - 1 January 2009
  • Identifiering av gener som modifierar avancerad ateroskleros genom globala genexpressionsstudier i en musmodell för ateroskleros i människa
    Vetenskapsrådet - FoAss
    1 January 2004
  • Defining LDL-cholesterol responsive genes in the atherosclerotic arterial wall
    Hjärtlungfonden
    1 January 2004
  • Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation - Project grant
    Hjärtlungfonden
    1 January 2004
  • King Gustaf V:s and Queen Victoria Foundation
    King Gustaf V:s and Queen Victoria Foundation
    1 January 2004 - 1 January 2008
  • The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research - Project grant
    The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research
    1 January 2003
  • Identifiering av gener som modifierar avancerad ateroskleros genom globala genexpressionsstudier i en musmodell för ateroskleros hos människa
    Vetenskapsrådet
    1 January 2003
  • Project grant Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation
    Hjärtlungfonden
    1 January 2003
  • Apolipoprotein B sekretion från hjärtat - stipendium
    Hjärtlungfonden
    1 January 1999
  • The Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation - Project grant
    Hjärtlungfonden
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Anställningar

  • Senior Forskare, Medicin, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-
  • Professor, Genetik och Genomik, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2013-2023
  • Professor, Medicin-kardiologi, Cardiovascular Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2013-2023
  • Klinisk forskningschef, Klinisk systemgenetik, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2013-2020

Examina och utbildning

  • Docent, Molekylär medicin, Karolinska Institutet, 2003
  • Doktor, Doktorsexamen, Postprandial triglyceride-rich lipoproteins and atherosclerosis, Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, 1998
  • Läkarexamen, Karolinska Institutet, 1995
  • Civilekonom, Business School, Stockholm University, 1989

Uppdrag

  • Programdirektor, Systemgenetiska kliniska studier, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Cardiovascular Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2013-2020
  • VD och styrelseordförande, Clinical Gene Networks AB, Clinical Gene Networks (Sweden), http://clinicalgenenetworks.com/, 2003-

Priser och utmärkelser

  • Visiting Professor at Tokyo College, University of Tokyo, 2024
  • Senior investigator award, Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation, 2010
  • Senior investigator award, Karolinska Institutet, 2008
  • FoAss, Swedish Research Council, 2004
  • Finalist in the Young Investigator Award, International Society of Atherosclerosis, 2003
  • Fogarty fellowship, University of San Francisco, 1999

Uppdrag i kommitté

  • Medlem, Affymetrix Inc/Karolinska Institutet collaboration, Karolinska Institutet, 2005-
  • Medlem, Tillgång till biobanksprover och tillhörande information-principer och praktiska tillämpningar, Karolinska Institutet, 2005-2006
  • Ordförande, Examination committees for PhD theses, Karolinska Institutet, 2003-2012

Gästforskning och resestipendier

  • Post-doc, Gladstone Institutes, Post-doc using mouse models of atherosclerosis and cardiometabolic diseases, 1999-2001

Utvärdering av avhandlingsarbete

  • Katharina Slätis, Opponent, Institutionen för Medicin, Karolinska Institutet, 2009
  • Margareta Jernås, Opponent, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, 2008

Expert

  • Evaluator of research applications in international competition, External Evaluator, Danish Council for Strategic Research, 2008-2013
  • Evaluator of research applications in international competition, External Evaluator, European Science Foundation, 2008-2013
  • Reviewer or advisor for other scientific bodies, Scientific Evaluator, University of Tromsö, 2003

Nyheter från KI

Kalenderhändelser från KI

Nyheter från externa medier

Presentationer

  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2022
    Invited speaker to the Finnish Atherosclerosis Society (SATY). Title: STARNET- A World-Leading Functional Database for Studies of Cardiometabolic Disorders and Coronary Artery Disease.
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2020
    Plenary speaker, European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS). Title: Implementing systems biology to personalize medicine.
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2020
    Invited speaker to Columbia University, Cardiovascular Seminar Series. Title: A systems medicine approach to unravel key disease network drivers and biomarkers in cardiometabolic and coronary artery disease
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2020
    Inivited keynote speaker, The 1st International Symposium on Human InformatiX. Title: A systems medicine approach to unravel key disease network drivers and biomarkers in cardiometabolic and coronary artery disease
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2019
    Riskgener som driver åderförkalkning - ett gennätverks perspektiv, Temadag Kolesterol och Åderförkalkning, Karolinska Institutet
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2018
    Invited Keynote speaker, GENMED workshop. “From GWAS to genetically regulated tissue-specified coding and non-coding genes in CAD-causal networks and pathways – a Systems Genetics Approach”
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2018
    Invited Keynote speaker, Keystone Symposium of Atherosclerosis. “Cardiometabolic risk loci share downstream cis- and trans-gene regulation across tissues and diseases”
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2018
    Invited Keynote speaker, 10 years of GWAS, Looking back – looking forward. Title: “Systems genetic approaches to coronary artery disease”
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2016
    Invited speaker and chair at the 6th Conference on Systems Biology of the Mammalian Cells. Title of talk “Systems Genetic Approaches to Coronary Artery Disease - Toward Diagnostics and Therapies of Molecularly Defined Subcategories of Patients”,
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2016
    Invited speaker EBRC SEMINAR- THE ROSLIN INSTITUTE “Systems Genetic Approaches to Coronary Artery Disease Towards Diagnostics and Therapies of Patients in Molecularly Defined Subcategories”.
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2015
    Invited speaker and part of the Expert Panel Advisory Board for the HIGH SCIENCE HDL FORUM: THE ROLE OF HDL MODIFYING THERAPY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE Title of the talk: “Systems Biology in the evaluation of genetically determined risk”
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2013
    Invited speaker to the Symposium - Genetics of Atherosclerosis - Update 2013
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2012
    Invited keynote speaker at the conference “Complex Traits: Genomics and Computational Approaches”, Keystone Conference (B5)
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2012
    Invited speaker at the conference GeneForum
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2010
    Invited keynote speaker at the “Advances in Molecular Mechanisms of Atherosclerosis (J7)” organized by the Keystone Conferences organization
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2009
    Invited speaker to the “Genetics and Genomics of Cardiovascular Disease Workshop” organized by the North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO)
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2008
    Program Committee of the International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB). Moderator of workshop on Cardiovascular Systems Biology
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2008
    Organizer and keynote speaker, ESF Exploratory Workshop on Computational Disease Modeling
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2004
    Speaker at the XV International Symposium on Drugs Affecting Lipid Metabolism
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2003
    Atheroma Club 1992-2006
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2003
    Speaker at the International Symposium on Atherosclerosis
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2002
    Invited speaker to the British Atherosclerosis Society
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2002
    Speaker at the 42nd Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 2002
    Speaker at the Annual Scandinavian Atherosclerosis Conference, 2002, 2003, 2204
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 1998
    Invited speaker to European Lipoprotein Club 1998, 2001
    Björkegren J
  • Presentation (slides etc.): 1998
    Speaker at the International Symposium on Atherosclerosis (IAS)
    Björkegren J