Journal of Data Mining in Genomics & Proteomics

Joakim Dillner

Biography

Joakim Dillner is professor in infectious disease epidemiology at KarolinskaInstitutet. His research is focused on cancer screening and tumor virology, especially human papillomavirus (HPV). He supervises several very large trials of HPV screening and Nordic follow-up studies of HPV vaccination and has experience in running international networking efforts for large-scale molecular epidemiological studies for evaluation of the role of infections in cancer. He is well-known as PI of Swedescreen, the first started randomised trial of HPV-screening (since 1997) and as PI of the WHO HPV LabNet Global Reference Laboratory (since 2006). Since 2012 he has also taken over the International Papillomavirus Reference Center. Professor Dillner has published more than 300 original research papers.

Research Interest

Molecular biology Immunology Vaccinology