Scientific & Medical Advisors
Sven Lidin
Sven Lidin, PhD. Professor of inorganic chemistry at Stockholm University and Lund University. PhD in Inorganic chemistry from Lund University in 1990. Professor in inorganic chemistry at Stockholm from 1997 and in Lund from 2008. Holds the positions as General Secretary and Treasurer of the International Union of Crystallography 2005- ,Royal Academy of Sciences, 2002-, Scientific Advisory board for MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids (Chair) 2001-, Editorial Advisory board for Solid State Sciences 2000-, Chairman of the National Committee for Chemistry 2001-2005, Secretary of the National Committee for Crystallography 2002-2005, Elected member of the Swedish Science Council 2001-2003, Evaluator and/or committee member for national financing bodies NFR, SSF, STINT etc., Evaluator for Research councils in Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Norway and Australia.
Jan-Olov Karlsson
Jan Olof G Karlsson is an assistant professor of pharmacology at University of Linköping. Currently he is responsible for the R&D within PledPharma. Karlsson is an inventor on 6 granted patents. Between 1992 and 2007 he worked as a senior scientist at Nycomed Imaging (GE Healthcare) and has been involved in the preclinical development of the X-ray contrast agent Visipaque.
David Gisselsson Nord
David Gisselsson Nord (MD, PhD) is a geneticist undergoing residency in anatomic pathology. He currently heads a childhood cancer research group at Lund University, focusing on mechanisms behind genomic alterations in cancer and on links between embryology and cancer in children. With a keen interest in academic teaching, David Gisselsson Nord is also deeply involved in teaching pathology and cancer biology to medical students.
Ib Leunbach
Ib Leunbach MD; born 1943. Graduated from The University of Copenhagen 1972. Early 1969 the inventor of a CT scanning method very similar to the later appearing and commercialize CAT-scanning. Research fellow at the University Hospital in Copenhagen “Rigshospitalet” ( X-ray ) as well as education in Clinical Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. Since 1984 employed at “The department of experimental Research” ( X.-ray and MR ), the university of Lund, Sweden. 1986 the inventor of methods for Hyperpolarisation methods in Vivo applicable to humans for medical diagnosis. Further a consultant to Nycomed Innovation AB in Malmoe, Sweden. Holds a larger number of basic patents in this field. Since 2009 and currently employed as a clinical radiologist at Køge Hospital, Denmark.