Gustaf Ljungman
Senior Consultant Pediatric Hematology & Oncology, Children’s University Hospital
Professor Pediatrics, Uppsala University, Sweden
Gustaf Ljungman is a professor of pediatrics at Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden and a senior consultant in pediatric oncology at Uppsala Children’s University Hospital. GL’s clinical focus has been on solid tumors in general and in soft tissue sarcomas in particular. He is the clinical leader of the Swedish Childhood Tumor Biobank which is a tissue and genomic data biobank. He is also the clinical leader of the project Genomic Medicine Sweden (GMS) Childhood Cancer where today all children with cancer in Sweden are offered whole genome sequencing of both tumor and reference, and in addition analysis of childhood cancer predisposition.