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Each year more than 100,000 Swedish patients receive a transfusion with blood drawn from one of Sweden’s many volunteer blood donors. Fortunately, transfusion safety has improved tremendously since the 1980’s when many patients were infected with HIV and other viruses through blood products. However, much work remains. Together with colleagues around the world, I study the full spectrum of transfusion safety, from health effects of donating blood to transfusion-transmitted infections and immunological effects of transfusions. There is so much that we don’t know!
I also work as a resident physician in hematology, where I conduct more clinically oriented research focused on blood diseases and how these should be treated.
Born: 1981
Family: My wife Karin and our two children, Nils (born 2014) and Hanna (born 2016).
Interests: Simple! Food, drink, and nature.
Other: I usually say that research is the best job in the world. I do exactly what I want and am completely driven by my own curiosity, which suits me perfectly.
The main reason for my memership in the Young Academy of Sweden is the opportunity to influence Swedish research policy. Simultaneously I am driven by a concern about the growing contempt for science in society – all knowledge seems to have been relativized into opinions, no matter how well researched it is – and as a scientist I realize I can.
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