INVITED SPEAKER

Professor Anna Norrby-Teglund

Anna Norrby-Teglund is Professor in medical microbial pathogenesis and Director of the Center for Infectious Medicine at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. She has a long-standing interest in the pathogenesis of severe invasive bacterial infections, in particular infections caused by group A Streptococcus. She obtained her PhD degree in clinical bacteriology at Umeå University, Sweden, in 1994, after which she conducted postdoctoral studies at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. In 1997, she returned to Sweden and established her research group at the Karolinska Institutet. Her research has focused on delineating mechanisms contributing to severe manifestations of acute invasive bacterial infections (i.e. severe sepsis/septic shock and necrotizing soft tissue infections) in order to identify candidate biomarkers for improved diagnostics and targets for therapeutic intervention. The research has been translational in nature and based largely on patient materials and tissue model systems that mimic the clinical setting. Recent and ongoing activities has a strong focus on personalized medicine in infectious diseases involving international inter-disciplinary collaborative projects (www.infectpermed.com).