Thomas Edlund
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Betagenon
Sweden
Biography
He is the founder and CEO of Betagenon. He is also a Professor in Molecular Genetics, University of Umeå. He was a co-founder of the biotech companies Symbicom AB and Uman Genomics AB and he has served on the scientific advisory board of Ontogeny Inc. Cambridge, USA. He has extensive experience of scientific strategy in biotech companies, in fundraising and other business activities. He was a Post-doc in Prof.William Rutter’s laboratory at UCSF, USA. He is an international renowned scientist in the study of the mechanism of development of the central nervous system and the mammalian pancreas and of the regulation of insulin gene expression. He is a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and of EMBO and he has been honored by numerous national and international awards.
Research Interest
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Molecular Genetics, Genomics
