Professor Gunnar Nilsson, PhD

Gunnar Nilsson is a Professor of Experimental Allergy, and Head of Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. He obtained his PhD 1989 from Uppsala University after which he did a postdoctoral period in the laboratory of Dr. Lawrence B. Schwartz, Richmond, VA. He has also been guest scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Dean Metcalfe, NIH, Bethesda, MD. He has published more than 200 original and review articles, mainly in the field of mast cell biology. He is co-founder of the first Mastocytosis Centre of Excellence in Sweden, which was established 2006 at the Karolinska Institutet, and is since 2016 chairman of the Swedish Mastocytosis Society.