Professional Activities
Work Experience:
1995 – 2000 |
PhD student/Research assistant, including teaching (totally 1500 hours). The teaching work included planning, preparing and teaching basic (A or B-level; Basic Genetics and Molecular Genetics) and advanced (C or D-level; Gene Technology, Advanced Genetics and Human Genetics) laboratory courses. |
2001 |
Postdoc at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology-Genetics, Göteborg, Sweden, |
2002 |
Postdoc at the Genetics Branch Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute/NIH50 South Drive, Bethesda, USA. |
2003 – Present |
Employed as researcher full-time, Department of Oncology, University of Gothenburg. |
Supervision:
Former PhD students under my supervision
- Elin Karlsson: Novel biomarkers predicting long-term survival in breast cancer, 2009
- Szilárd Nemes: Integrative genomic and survival analysis of breast tumors 2012
- Emman Shubbar: Analysis of Novel Biomarkers for Unfavorable Breast Cancer Prognosis 2012
- Toshima Parris: High-risk breast cancer. From biology to personalized therapeutic strategies 2014
Former PhD students under my co-supervision
- Anna Danielsson PhD 2005
- Tatjana Adamovic, PhD 2006
- Ahmad Hamta PhD 2006
Former postdocs under my supervision
- Irina Corin 2005
- Anna Danielsson
Current PhD students under my supervision
- Luaay Aziz, MD, MB ChB.
- Elin Söderberg (from autumn 2014)
- Elisabeth Werner Rönnerman, MD (from autumn 2014)
Current PhD students under my co-supervision
- Nils Rudqvist
- Emil Schüler
- Britta Langen
Current postdocs under my supervision
Scientific Advisory Functions
- Expert advisor for the employment of Johan Vallon Christersson at Lund University as Research Assistant in functional cancer genomics.
- Expert advisor for the associate professorship in experimental oncology of Charlotte Welinder at Lund University.
Examination board member for doctoral dissertatiosn:
- Annika Bergman, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University (2006).
- Princy Francis, Department of Oncology, Lund University (2007).
- Marie Ahnström Waltersson, Department of Clinical, Experimental Medicine, Linköping University (2009).
- Stina Petersson, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University (2010).
- Johan Staaf, Department of Oncology, Lund University (2010).
- Vu Hong Thang, Department of Pathology and Oncology, Karolinska Institutet (2012)
- Christina Kåbjörn Gustafsson, Department of Pathology, Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University (2014)
Involvement In Scientific Journals
- Editorial board member of the BMC Cancer
- Editorial board member at the Open Gene Therapy Journal.
- Editorial board member at the Journal of Cancer Therapeutics and Research.
- Editorial board member at the Oncocytology journal.
- Editorial board member at the Conference Papers in Molecular Biology
Honors And Rewards
- 2013 Eva Selin-grant as cancer researcher
- 2001 – 2003 Swedish Cancer Society (Cancerfonden) postdoctoral fellow.
- 1995 – 1997 Sven and Lilly Lawski graduate fellow in Genetics.