Mona Ståhle
Professor
Advisors
Lipidor AB
Sweden
Biography
Mona Ståhle is Professor and Chair of the Dermatology and Venereology Unit, Department of Medicine at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Professor Ståhle received her medical degree from the University of Lund. She became a specialist in Dermatology and Venerology at the Karolinska Hospital in 1984. Professor Ståhle completed her PhD at the Karolinska Institutet in 1989.Between 1989 and 1991, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Washington University, St Louis, USA where she studied molecular biology focusing on matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) in skin. After returning to the Karolinska Institutet she continued and expanded on this research in her own laboratory. Her current group consists of five senior scientists, three post-docs and four graduate students. Professor Ståhle’s main research area focuses on epidemiologic and genetic studies in chronic inflammatory skin diseases, such as psoriasis and in particular how epidemiologic studies allow the understanding of clinical characteristics and triggering factors at disease onset and comorbidities, for example the metabolic profile and cardiovascular over-risk associated with psoriasis. The genetics of psoriasis and the identification of psoriasis-specific molecules that are differentially regulated in the target organ, primarily skin, are also under investigation. She has been Chair of the Swedish Society for Dermatology and Venereology and she is the medical advisor for the Swedish Psoriasis Association. In addition to psoriasis, Professor Ståhle has an interest in the role of antimicrobial peptides in skin biology. Within this field, she is founder of Lipopeptide AB, a start-up biotech company within the Karolinska Development. The main discovery concerns wound healing, which has led to a novel drug that recently completed a successful Phase 2 trial in venous ulcers. Professor Ståhle sits on the editorial board of several journals and she has published well over 100 original peer-reviewed articles.
Research Interest
Bussiness Development
