Anna Wedell#
| Membership Number: | 5529 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | https://ki.se/en/mmk/inborn-errors-of-endocrinology-and-metabolism?_ga=2.173675619.1913060265.1577282367-1202542177.1574695525 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2612-6301 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Head, Centre for Inherited Metabolic Diseases (CMMS), Karolinska University Hospital
- 2007 - present Senior Consultant, Centre for Inherited Metabolic Diseases (CMMS), Karolinska University Hospital
- 2004 - present Professor in Medical Genetics, Dept of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet
- 2010 - 2013 Clinical Director, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm
- 2003 - 2009 Researcher in Clinical Biomedicine at KI (“clinical elite program”)
- 1998 - 2003 Junior Research Position (FoAss) Swedish Research Council (VR–M)
- 1997 - 2006 Resident in Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Hospital
- 1997 Postdoctoral stipend, Swedish Society of Medical Research
- 1994 - 1997 Research internship (Forskar-AT), Karolinska University Hospital
- 1988 - 1994 PhD student, Medical Research Council and junior clinician, Clinical Genetics Unit, Karolinska University Hospital
Fields of Scholarship
- Inborn errors of metabolism
- Clinical whole genome sequencing
- Neurometabolism
- Mitochondrial disorders
- Personalised medicine
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Member of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing, U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Medicine and U.K. Royal Society
- 2019 Research!Sweden Researcher of the Year Scientific Award
- 2019 Honorary Skou Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2018 Nicholson Lecturer, The Rockefeller University, New York
- 2019 - 2021 Vice chairman, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, class VII Medical Sciences
- 2011, 2012, 2019, 2020 Member, Adjunct Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
- 2016 - 2018 Chairman, Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
- 2016 - present Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, class VII Medical Sciences
- 2016 - present Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, class X Biotechnology
- 2016 Member of European Academies' Science Advisory Council’s (EASAC) Working Group on “Genome Editing”
- 2013 - 2015 Member, Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
- 2015 Wallenberg Clinical Scholar, K A Wallenberg Foundation
- 2010- present Member, Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet
