Rate My Professor Anna Lindstrand

Anna Lindstrand is Adjunct Professor of Clinical Genetics in the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery at Karolinska Institutet, where she also serves as group leader for the Rare Diseases research group alongside Ann Nordgren. She earned her University Medical Degree from Karolinska Institutet in 1999, a PhD from the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery in 2010, and attained Docent status at Karolinska Institutet in 2016. Her clinical career at Karolinska University Hospital began with residency in Clinical Genetics and Genomics from 2002 to 2012, followed by roles as specialist physician from 2012 to 2019, Director of the Clinical Genetics Laboratory since 2018, and Consultant in Clinical Genetics and Genomics since 2019. She completed a postdoctoral position at Duke University from 2010 to 2012, focusing on ciliopathies, copy number variant screening, and zebrafish modeling. Lindstrand has received numerous awards, including the Jeanssons Foundation personal award for outstanding young researchers in 2015, a three-year fellowship from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (2015-2017), funding from Svenska Sällskapet för Medicinsk Forskning (2015-2018), support from Marianne och Marcus Wallenbergs Stiftelse for clinical scientists (2015-2017), and four-year funding as Research Associate at Karolinska Institutet (2016-2019).