Sophia Zackrisson

Sophia Zackrisson, MD, PhD, professor, obtained her medical degree at Lund University, Sweden in 1999, became board certified physician in 2002 and radiologist in 2009. She completed her PhD in epidemiology in 2006 with a thesis on mammography screening. In 2011, Zackrisson did a Postdoc in molecular imaging at the Gambhir Lab, Stanford University, Ca, USA, on photoacoustic cancer imaging.

Zackrisson is working as senior consultant radiologist at Skåne University Hospital Malmö and Professor of Radiology at Lund University, Sweden. Her clinical work involves breast and abdominal imaging. In her role as professor, she is responsible for radiology research and radiological undergraduate teaching in Malmö. Her research is funded by independent grants from e.g., ALF (Governmental funding for clinical research) and the Swedish Cancer Society.

Sophia Zackrisson is chair of the Swedish Society of Breast Imaging, chair of the Swedish Translational Research in Breast Cancer and executive board member of European Society of Breast Imaging. She is currently director of Lund University Cancer Centre, a strategic organization coordinating cancer research at the university. She is an internationally renowned speaker, author of numerous scientific papers and book chapters and is represented with publications in high impact journals such as the Lancet Oncology and the BMJ.

In 2020 she was named “Cancer Researcher of the Year” by the Swedish Cancer Society for her contributions in cancer imaging.

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