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Research

With focus on our most common diseases and medical challenges. Our current research areas include Imaging and non-invasive methods, AI in healthcare, and Bioelectronic medicine.

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In 2021, approximately 25,400 people were affected and 5,900 died with a stroke (cerebral infarction or cerebral hemorrhage). Source: National Board of Health and Welfare.

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In 2021, approximately 23,000 people had an acute heart attack in Sweden and 4,700 people died. Source: National Board of Health and Welfare

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In 2021, 75,313 malignant tumors were reported for 68,810 individuals. The most common form of cancer among women is breast cancer. Source: National Board of Health and Welfare

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Kidney failure is a hidden public disease that affects one in ten Swedes. Source Swedish Kidney Association

Research programmes

Each research area is covered by one or more research programmes. The research may include prevention as well as diagnosis and therapy. 

The areas are determined after the top managers of the major hospitals and the primary health care have identified needs, and Karolinska Institutet and KTH Royal Institute of Technology have commented on research interests and competence.

Project Calls

Projects are announced within the respective programs. An assessment group consisting of national and international experts is appointed by the steering committee. The assessment group proposes a ranking of applications. The steering committee then recommends which projects will be granted funds.

Clinical Relevance

To ensure clinical relevance in the projects, participation of volunteers and healthy subjects is a prerequisite. This is possible within MedTechLabs through the involvement of Region Stockholm. The projects within the centre should follow good clinical research practice (GCP), ethics testing teams and other ethics of care and research ethics. They should also be approved by the proper authorities.

Focus on recruitment of the Faculty of Applied Sciences

MedTechLabs also involves an effort to recruit young researchers to KTH and KI in the form of assistant lecturers. Collaboration in technology and clinical research creates the conditions for research results that can then be implemented in health care for the benefit of the patient.

Fellowship program

Strategic recruitments with career paths at KTH or Karolinska Institutet have been conducted to strengthened the research program Spectral CT-imaging and Endovascular Techniques. The fellowship programme may be expanded with mobility programmes in order to attract internationally renowned researchers to conduct their research at MedTechLabs, hosted by either KTH or Karolinska Institutet.

Research leaders

MedTechLabs has 14 research leaders who are affiliated to the centre. Each program is led by a Program Director from KI and KTH respectively.

Jeroen Goos

Jeroen Goos is assistant professor at the Department for Clinical NeuroScience, Karolinska Institutet.

Mats Persson

Mats Persson is assistant professor at the Department of Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Johan Lundberg

Johan Lundberg is assistant professor at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet and head for the MR…

Hans Blom

Program Director Optical 3D microscopy for more effective diagnosis of kidney diseases. Docent in Biophysics at KTH. Head of…

Sigrid Lundberg

Program Director Optical 3D microscopy for more effective diagnosis of kidney diseases. Research leader and MD at Department of…

Kevin Smith

Program Director Breast Cancer Imaging powered by Artificial Intelligence Diagnostics. Associate professor in computer vision and biomedical image analysis…

Niclas Roxhed

Research leader Spektral CT och Endovascular techniques

Peder Olofsson

Program Director Bioelectronic medicine and Head of Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine at Karolinska Institutet.

Johan Hartman

Program Director Breast Cancer Imaging powered by Artificial Intelligence Diagnostics. Professor of Pathology at Karolinska Institutet. Pathologist at Södersjukhuset.

Henrik Hult

Program Director Bioelectronic Medicine and Professor in Mathematical Statistics at KTH.

Mats Danielsson

Program Director Spectral CT and Endovascular Techniques, Professor in Medical Imaging, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Staffan Holmin

Program Director Spectral CT and Endovascular Techniques and Professor of clinical neuroimaging at Karolinska Institutet and consultant neuroradiologist at…

Research videos

Gain an insight into ground-breaking research by our 3-minutes videos

Developing autonomous nerve stimulation for the individualised treatment of inflammatory diseases

Within the Biolelectronic Medicine program, doctors, immunologists, engineers and mathematicians work together to find alternative ways to treat inflammatory diseases.

Development of a non-invasive treatment therapy for cancer

Within the research program Spectral CT and Endovascular Techniques, a non-invasive treatment therapy for cancer is being developed. The interdisciplinary environment facilitates idea development, data interpretation and problem solving at…

Photoncounting CT with Exceptional Image Quality

Within the program Spectral CT and Endovascular Techniques, the next generation of Computed Tomography technology is being developed, to the benefit of millions of patients worldwide. The key to success…

Research projects

MedTechLabs do Research within Imaging and non-invasive methods, AI in healthcare and Bioelectronic medicine. Each research area is covered by one or more Research programs.The research may include prevention as well as diagnosis and therapy. Within the Spectral CT and Endovascular techniques program, a Fellowship program is also ongoing.