Anna Wedell

Professor, Senior consultant, Director PMCK at Karolinska Institutet

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Anna Wedell, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Medical Genetics at Karolinska Institutet and Senior Consultant at the Centre for Inherited Metabolic Diseases at Karolinska University Hospital. Since 2021, she is Director of the Precision Medicine Center Karolinska (PMCK), an academic-clinical partnership between Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, aiming to facilitate implementation of precision medicine into healthcare. Wedell also leads a research group that has discovered a number of novel monogenic diseases affecting brain metabolism. Since 2012, Anna is a member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Since 2016 she is a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.