Karolinska Institute and University Hospital
Karolinska Institutet (KI), founded in 1810, is Sweden’s only university especially focusing on biomedical sciences. In addition, KI annually awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. KI ranks as one of the world’s leading medical universities, thanks in part to the quality of its research activities, which today account for 40 per cent of all medical research in Sweden.
Kristina Gemzell Danielsson, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet. (By courtesy of Karolinska Institutet Mediabank, Photographer Linus Hallgren)
Prof. Gemzell-Danielsson (230 publications, h-index 30) is the head of the WHO center for Research in Human Reproduction and it has expertise in conducting and training international researchers in clinical, experimental and translational reproductive health. Team member Dr. Lalit Kumar Parameswaran Grace is a biomedical researcher strongly focused on endometriosis research. He served as Associate Editor of Human Reproduction and a Secretary of the Reproduction Growth and Development Network.
The team comprises of gynecologists, scientists, postdocs, PhD fellows, research nurses and BMAs. It has its own clinical trial unit in the Karolinska University Hospital, and volunteers and patients are recruited for clinical trials. The experimental lab of the group has in-house facilities for confocal microscopy, fast protein characterization technique Wes, well equipped 3D cell culture and molecular biology laboratories. The group’s work involves FACS and Illumina gene expression analysis. The institute has facilities for mass cytometry, Epitope mapping on high-density peptide microarrays, Epi-fluorescence microscopes, access to 20,000 validated antibodies as part of the human protein Atlas, HTS for proteins, siRNA and next gen seq facility. KI contributes to the MOMENDO project by offering its strong background in patient-centered clinicopathological approaches, epidemiological research, and stem cell research.
