Mathias Uhlén


Mathias Uhlén is a Swedish biologist, biotechnologist, and Professor of Microbiology at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. His research interests cover antibody engineering, proteomics and precision medicine.

Life

In 1984 Uhlén was promoted for PhD at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. After being employed at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany for four years, he became professor at KTH in 1988 at the School of Biotechnology. His research has led to more than 650 publications, 63,000 citations.
In 2003, as part of an international project to map the complete human proteome and transcriptome system, the Human Protein Atlas project was created and launched. Dr Uhlén led this project from the beginning. The project has launched five additional projects, within the primary project.
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He is the President of the European Federation of Biotechnology. From 2010-2015, he was the founding Director of the Science for Life Laboratory ¨ which is a national center for molecular bioscience.