Foto: Kirsten Sjøwall
Research interests
- Molecular mechanisms in psychiatry
- Modeling psychiatric disorders using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) technology
- Functional genomics in psychiatry
- Biobanking
Education
- Doctor of Medical Sciences (Dr.Sci.Med., Ph.D.), University of Zagreb, Croatia and University of Graz, Austria
- Specialist in Medical Biochemistry & Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics
- M.Sc. in Biology-Biomedicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Current and previous positions
- Group leader, Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, and Professor, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway
- Postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Medical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Graz, Austria
- Clinical biochemist, University Clinical Centers of Podgorica, Montenegro and Zagreb, Croatia
Guest researcher/professor study visits
- Dept. Biochemistry, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman
- Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry and Dept. of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
- Gene Therapy and Celle Therapy Laboratory, INSERM and Groupe Hospitalier Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris
- Dept. of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa.
Duties
- Chair, European Consortium on Stem Cells in Neuropsychiatric diseases (EURICND)