Katarina Le Blanc#
| Membership Number: | 7001 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | https://ki.se/en/labmed/katarina-le-blanc-group |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8716-5833 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006-11-13 Professor of Clinical Stem Cell Research
- 2004-06-02 Associate Professor (docent) in Hematology, Karolinska Institutet
- 2002 Certified Specialist in Hematology
- 1999-05-10 ECFMG Certificate (American Medical License)
- 1997 Swedish Medical License
- 1993 MD, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Fields of Scholarship
- Alloreactivity
- Graft versus Host disease
- Hematoppoiesis
- Adoptive cell transfer
- Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
- Mesenchymal stromal cells
Honours and Awards
- 2000 Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation award for young female researchers
- 2005 Sven and Ebba-Christina Hagberg Foundation award for excellent research in medicine at Karolinska Institutet 2004.
- 2005 Swedish Medical Society award for young scientists
- 2008 The Royal Swedish Academy of Science, the Tobias Foundation Prize for the excellent studies of the immunological properties of mesenchymal stem cells and their use in mesenchymal stem cell therapy
- 2014 - present Member of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet
- 2015 - present Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Klass VII
- 2016 - present Ordinary Member, Pontifical Academy for Life, Vatican City State, Rome (Accademia per la Vita; P)
