Teresa Frisan

Teresa Frisan obtained the bachelor degree in Biology in 1991 in Italy. In 1993, she joined the group of Prof. Maria Masucci at Karolinska Institutet (KI), Sweden, and received the PhD degree in Cell and Tumor Biology in 1999. After a post-doctoral period at KI and Laval University, Quebec, T. Frisan started her own research group at KI and became docent in Infection Biology in 2007. In 2017, she was appointed Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at the Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University.

Beside science, she is passionately engaged in undergraduate and doctoral education, for which she was granted several pedagogic prizes.