New members studies brain tumours and gene regulation

At the General Meeting on 4 June two researchers were elected new Swedish members of the Academy’s class for medical sciences. Beatrice Melin from Umeå university studies brain tumours and Rickard Sandberg from Karolinska Institutet investigates gene regulation.

Swedish members

Class for medical sciences

Beatrice Melin. Photo: Mattias Pettersson

Beatrice Melin, Professor of Oncology, Department of Diagnostics and Intervention, Umeå university

Beatrice Melin, Umeå university

 

Rickard Sandberg. Photo: Stefan Zimmerman

Rickard Sandberg, Professor of Molecular Genetics, Karolinska Institutet

Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet