Speaker:

Prof. Bengt Fadeel, Karolinska Institutet.

Tittle: Nano-Bio-Interactions: Does it Matter How Cells Die?

Time: 14:00 October 12th, 2026 (Monday)

Venue: Conference Room No.6, Building No.5

Host: Prof. Yuliang Zhao

Info.:

Prof. Bengt Fadeel, M.D., Ph.D., is a Full Professor of Medical Inflammation Research at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (since 2010), and Vice Chairman of the Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet. He is a Member of Academia Europaea (Class of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), and a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (United States). He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Toxicology, and a member of the editorial board of Toxicological Sciences (official journal of SOT) and Current Opinion of Toxicology (official journal of IUTOX). He has been actively involved in several large EU-funded research programs addressing nanosafety as well as the health & environment workpackage of the GRAPHENE Flagship Project (2013–2023). His research addresses the biological interactions of engineered nanomaterials and other advanced materials with a particular focus on the immune system. Prof. Fadeel is the past chairman of the national nanosafety platform commissioned by the Swedish Ministry of the Environment, and a current member of the OECD WPMN Steering Group on Advanced Materials (appointed as a national expert by the Swedish Chemicals Agency).