Anna Wedell - Curriculum Vitae#
1. Higher education
- 1988 Medical degree (MD), Karolinska Institutet (KI)
- 1997 Licensed to practice medicine in Sweden
- 2006 Specialist in Clinical Genetics
2. Doctoral degree
- 1994 Doctor of Medical Sciences (PhD), KI
3. Present position
- 2004 Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, KI
- 2007 Senior Consultant, Centre for Inherited Metabolic Diseases (CMMS), Karolinska University Hospital (KUH)
- 2014 Head of Clinic, CMMS
4. Previous positions and periods of appointment
- 1988 - 1992 Research assistant, physician and PhD student, Clinical Genetics Unit, KUH
- 1993 - 1994 PhD position, Swedish Medical Research Council
- 1994 - 1996 Research internship, KUH
- 1997 - 2004 Associate Professor (docent), KI
- 1998 - 2002 Junior research position, Swedish Medical Research Council
- 1998 - 2006 Resident in Clinical Genetics, KUH
- 2000 Guest scientist, the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Foundation, La Jolla, USA
- 2003 - 2009 Researcher in Clinical Biomedicine, KI (“clinical elite program”)
- 2010 - 2013 Scientific Director, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm
5. International awards, Academy memberships and similar
- 2010 Member of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet
- 2011 - 2012 Associate Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine
- 2013 - 2018 Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine
- 2016 - 2018 Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine
- 2015 Wallenberg Clinical Scholar
- 2016 Member of Class X (Biotechnology) of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
- 2016 Member of Class VII (Medical Sciences) of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2018 Nicholson Lecturer, the Rockefeller University, New York
- 2019 Research!Sweden Scientific Award
- 2019 Honorary Skou Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2019-2021 Vice chair, Class VII of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
6. Mentoring of scientists
Current supervision: 6 PhD students and 2 postdocs; previous supervision: 11 PhD students and 5 postdocs.