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Prof. Tomas J Ekstrom

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Prof. Tomas J Ekstrom

Prof. Tomas J Ekstrom

Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
tomas.ekstrom@tesct.org

Professional preparation

  • Ph.D. in Biochemistry, 1987, the Stockholm University.
  • Postdoctoral research: 1987-1990. University of California, SanDiego.
  • Professor of Molecular Cellbiology at the Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet. 2002-current.
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Commissions of trust (Selected)

  • Member of the planning group for the Gene Technology Advisory Board 2006.
  • Member of the planning group for the national “LifeGene” project as epigenetic expert.
  • Guest Editor for Special Issue on “Epigenetic Control of Gene expression” in Biochem.Biophys.Acta. 2008.
  • Member of the Program Committee for the World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics in 2009.
  • Member of the Center for Molecular Medicine (CMM) steering group 2004-2014.
  • Member of KI research grant board, 2009-2014.
  • Member of the Board of Research at Karolinska Institute, 2010-2011.
  • Member of the Karolinska Research Strategic Committee, 2010-2011.
  • Expert proposal evaluator for the European Commission, 2011-2012.
  • External reviewer in the creation of a Translational Medicine Institute at Trinity College, Dublin, 2014.
  • National and international appointments, over 20 times e.g. Welcome Trust; Arthritis Research UK; Breast Cancer Campaign, UK;EU-Commission; Netherlands Genomics Initiative, Horizon program 1st call Zenith projects; MRC, London..

Fellowships and Awards

  • 1987-1989; Post-doctoral fellowship from the Swedish Natural Science Research Council.
  • 1991-1997; Young investigator award from the Swedish Natural Science Research Council.  2001-2007; Senior scientist award from the Swedish Cancer Society.
  • 2014; Regnell’s Prize from the Swedish Society of Medicine.

Other selected

  • Organizer of Nobel Assembly Mini-symposium on Pharmacogenomics and Epigenomics, May 2011.
  • Organizer of Nobel Symposium “Frontiers in Medicine” on the topic of Epigenetics in Health and Disease, April 23, 2015.

Science and Society

  • National Board of Gene Technology, planning of conference on “Genetics of aging”, lecture live television broadcast,Sept. 2006; ”Genetics and Epigenetics”.
  • Several interviews for periodicals.
  • Interview on live TV news regarding epigenetics and monozygotic twins, 2006.
  • Interview on TV news about epigenetics and evolution, 2009.
  • Expert advisory panel member for VR supported project on epigenetics in education at Karlstad University.

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