Malin Flodström-Tullberg is Professor and Deputy Unit Head of the Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM) at the Department of Medicine of the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. She holds a Ph.D. degree in medical cell biology from Uppsala University (1998) and did a postdoc in immunology at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA (1998-2003). She has been active as a group leader at CIM since 2003 and has published over 100 full papers and reviews in peer-reviewed journals. Her research focuses on understanding the causes of type 1 diabetes and contributing to the development and preclinical testing of new preventive measures against the disease. Much of the research effort is devoted to understanding the relationship between environmental factors (e.g. enterovirus infections) and type 1 diabetes. This includes the development and preclinical testing of Coxsackievirus vaccines, identification of biomarkers, and studies on how the virus affects the beta cell and the immune system with a goal to uncover disease mechanisms and druggable pathways.
