Per Andrén

Plenary speaker for Opening Session at Westminster Hall on Saturday, July 30th

Dr. Per Andrén is a Professor of Mass Spectrometry Imaging at the Dept. of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, Sweden. He received his M.Sc. in Pharmacy in 1984 and hisPh.D. in 1989 in Medical Sciences (Psychiatry) at Uppsala University. He did a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Texas Medical School, Houston, USA (1989-1995) before he returned to Uppsala University as an Associate Professor. He has also worked at GE Healthcare R&D (2000-2009).Dr. Andrén is interested in the use of mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) for the analysis of biological systems and focus on MSI method developments and applications of the brain and neurodegenerative diseases, with particular emphasis on Parkinson’s disease. His laboratory(Spatial Mass Spectrometry) is a Swedish national facility for MSI within the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), is an institution for the advancement of molecular biosciences in Sweden.

https://farmbio.uu.se/core-facility/spatial-mass-spectrometry/
https://www.scilifelab.se/units/spatial-mass-spectrometry/