Britt Gustaffson & Christian Pou
Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
Biography
Professor Britt Gustafsson:
Dr Britt Gustafsson works as a paediatrician at Karolinska University Hospital, specialized into stem cell transplantation in children. Since 2001 she has been a senior consultant into paediatric haematology, an associate professor since 2004 and a professor since 2013. She has been the main tutor for three PhD students, who graduated 2010, 2011 and 2014 and she has three more PhD students, where one of the students will work with backtracking leukemic clones back to the Guthrie cards.
She has published more than 65 articles, where many of the articles are focused on searching for virus infections in neonatal blood spots (Guthrie cards).
Since 2015 she is an associate editor for Paediatric Transplantation, and she is also a member of several scientific committees and since 2010 the regional ethic committee in Stockholm.
Her scientific work is supported by the Swedish Childhood Cancer Society. During the last 5 years she has also worked as a volunteer doctor in Zambia and Kenya
Christian Pou, PhD:
Christian Pou received his PhD in 2013 in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biomedicine at the Institute for AIDS Research and at the University Autonoma of Barcelona. During his PhD, he was involved in the design, optimization and implementation of next sequencing strategies tailored to characterize the clinical value ultrasensitive HIV-1 genotyping to determine antiretroviral resistance and viral tropism. He is currently working as a postdoc developing next generation protocols for viral discovery, virome characterization and viral recombination at Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory and Karolinska University Hospital.
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