Gosta Winberg

M.D., PhD, Associate professor (Stockholm, Sweden)

Place of work:

Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) Stockholm, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB), Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden)

Position:

Senior researcher, visiting professor

Address:

Nobelsvag 3, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden

Phone:

+468-5248 6249

E-mail:

gosta.winberg@ki.se

Field of expertise:

Molecular and cellular biology, microbiology, phylogenetics, applied genetic engineering, cellular engineering, biology of tumors and cells, medical virology, biomedicine, molecular biology

References to the scientist's profile

Qualifications

1981-1983 – Post-doctoral studies at State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook;
1974-1981 – Doctor of Medical Microbiology at Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden);
1969-1974 – MD at Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden);
1965-1971 – Master’s degree in mathematics and linguistics (Russian, Polish, Chinese), Stockholm University (Sweden).

Work and research experience

2010– Current: senior researcher at Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) Stockholm, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB), Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden);
2008 - 2010: visiting lecturer at the Department of engineering and Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA);
2004 - 2008: chief microbiologist at Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (Stockholm, Sweden);
2001 - 2003: chief biomedical, Virtual Genetic Laboratory AB (Stockholm, Sweden);
1997 - 2003: chief microbiologist at the Department of Virusology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (Stockholm, Sweden);
1998 - 1999: researcher at the Centre of Genome Research, Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden);
1996: virologist at Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (Stockholm, Sweden);
1995 - 2003: researcher at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden);
1994 - 1995:   visiting researcher at Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute (Seattle, USA);
1984 - 1992:   project leader at Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden).

Awards

1995-1996 : Scholarship of the Cancer Research Institute (USA);
1992-1994 : Eleanor Roosevelt’s UICC / ACS International Scholarship for Cancer Research (International Union Against Cancer (UICC), Geneva, Switzerland);
1984-1992 : Scholarship of the Cancer Research Institute (USA);
1981-1983 : Long-Term EMBO Scholarship (European Organization of Molecular Biology (Heidelberg, Germany);
1975-1981 : Doctoral Scholarship at Karolinska Institut (Stockholm, Sweden).