Managing Director: Dr Anders Åberg
Born 1958. PhD in molecular biology (1993). Between 1993 and 1996 he worked as staff scientist at EMBL, Grenoble. In 1997, Dr. Åberg joined AstraZeneca Structural Chemistry Laboratory as a senior scientist working with structure-based drug discovery. In 2001 he became Director of the Structural Chemistry Laboratory.
At AstraZeneca he pioneered fragment based drug design. In 2005 he joined Sidec AB as CSO, a company that provided unique biological knowledge to antibody drug discovery companies. At Sidec Dr. Åberg had the responsibility to develop the technology towards customer needs as well as the commercial operation where a strong focus was the implementation of lean production methods.
Dr. Åberg has 20 peer-reviewed publications and 2 patent applications.
Scientific Advisor: Prof. Pär Nordlund
Born 1958. Professor at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
Professor Nordlund previously held a Professorship at Stockholm University and was recruited to Karolinska Institutet in 2005. He has also worked at the University of Oxford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nordlund is a leading researcher in structural biology in Europe. His group is also a leader in the development of improved strategies for structural studies of challenging proteins such as human proteins as well as integral membrane protein. Nordlund was the founder of the Karolinska Institutet site of the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC). SGC is a Swedish-UK-Canadian consortium aiming to determine the three dimensional structures of proteins with relevance to human health comprising proteins involved in cancer, inflammation, infection diabetes and the metabolic syndrome. He is also the co-founder of the protein science company Evitra AB and he is leading a structural biology center at the Nanyang Technical University in Singapore.
Professor Nordlund was awarded the prestigious Göran Gustafsson prize in chemistry in 2001 and is since 2009 a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. Every year the Academy awards the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, the Crafoord Prize and a number of other large prizes.
