Prof Anna Norrby-Teglund

Anna Norrby-Teglund is Professor in medical microbial pathogenesis and Director of the Center for Infectious Medicine at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

She has a long-standing interest in the pathogenesis of severe invasive bacterial infections, and in particular infections caused by group A Streptococcus. She obtained her PhD degree in clinical bacteriology at Umeå University, Sweden, in 1994, after which she conducted postdoctoral studies at the University of Tennessee, Memphis.

In 1997, she returned to Sweden and established her research group at the Karolinska Institutet. Her research has focused on delineating mechanisms contributing to severe manifestations of acute bacterial infections (i.e. severe sepsis/septic shock, necrotizing infections of the lung and skin) in order to identify novel targets for therapeutic intervention. The research has been translational in nature and based largely on patient materials and model systems that mimic the clinical setting.

Recent and ongoing activities aim to achieve personalized medicine in infectious diseases. Three multinational projects are ongoing on this, including studies originating from the EU-funded INFECT project (2013-2018), and recently initiated PerAID and PerMIT (www.infectpermed.com).