Board Member

Jonas Larsson received his MD (1999) and PhD (2002) from Lund University and did his postdoctoral training as an EMBO fellow at Harvard Medical School 2004-2006. He established his own laboratory at the Lund Stem Cell Center in 2006 and was appointed Professor of Molecular Medicine in 2016. His research is focused on the biology and of blood stem cells and the development of new treatment paradigms for blood disorders. Dr. Larsson was a founding member of the Young Academy of Sweden 2011-2016. From 2011 to 2020 he served as vice coordinator for the strategic research program in regenerative medicine, StemTherapy, and 2020-2023 as co-director of the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Lund University. He was recently elected Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Medicine 2024-2026.