Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy
Introduction
Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy is located at the Biomedical Center (BMC), Lund University and belongs to the Lund University Hospital. The laboratory investigates the properties of blood stem cells and is developing cell and gene therapy for blood disorders. The development of cell and gene therapy is considered important for many genetic disorders and cancer, disorders that remain incurable at present.
Stefan Karlsson, professor of Molecular medicine, Lund University is the 2009 Tobias laureate. The Tobias prize is funded by the Tobias Foundation and was awarded on December 16, 2009 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. Professor Karlsson receives the price for “his fundamental studies of the mechanisms that regulate blood-forming stem cells and how methods can be developed to expand blood-forming stem cells in order to improve clinical bone marrow transplantation”
The laboratory is a part of The Strategic Center for Stem Cell Biology and Cell Therapy, Lund University and has strong scientific interactions with all the laboratories that belong to the Center.
Similarly, there are many collaborating laboratories outside Lund.
Recently, a program project grant referred to as Hemato-Linné was awarded to several investigators at Lund Stem Cell Center coordinated by Professor Stefan Karlsson MD, PhD who is the head of the section.
To the Hemato-Linné grant is also a Research School in Stem Cell Biology connected. The research school provides top quality master and graduate education and support the training of world class scientists.
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