Dr. Olle Korsgren started his medical studies at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. In 2002 he was appointed Professor of Transplantation Immunology at Uppsala University . Since 2006 he holds the position as Professor of Cell Transplantation at the same University.
Dr. Korsgren's research activity has been focused on making islet transplantation a possible treatment for patients with type I diabetes. This has led him into several different areas from the ontogeny of the fetal pancreas and the development of techniques to make human islet isolation possible to the immununological problems involved in islet allo- and xenotransplantation. He is the Principal Investigator of the Nordic Network for clinical islet transplantation.
Contact details:
Olle Korsgren, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Transplantation
Department of Clinical Immunology,
Rudbeck Laboratory
Uppsala University Hospital ,
SE-751 85 Uppsala ,
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