Johanna Sandgren
Director of the Swedish Childhood Tumour Biobank
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Johanna Sandgren is the director of the Swedish Childhood Tumour Biobank, a unit at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. She is also part of the coordinating committee for GMS Childhood Cancer Working Group, providing whole genome sequencing to all children diagnosed with cancer in Sweden. Dr Sandgren has a PhD in cancer genomics from Uppsala University, Sweden, and 10+ years of research experience in the field of pediatric cancer genomics. Current focus is to support and enable scientific advances on childhood tumours with the research infrastructure of the Swedish Childhood Tumour Biobank that offers biological samples and genomic data to authorized researchers as well as services to clinical studies.