Per E. Andren HUPO 2019 - 18th Human Proteome Organization World Congress

Per E. Andren

Short Bio – Per E. Andrén, Ph.D., Professor Dr. Per Andrén is a Professor of Mass Spectrometry Imaging at the Dept. of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, Sweden. He received his MSc in Pharmacy in 1984 and his PhD 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 Amersham Biosciences/GE Healthcare R&D, Uppsala (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 an infrastructure facility for MSI within the Science for Life Laboratory, is an institution for the advancement of molecular biosciences in Sweden.