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Elias Set Jeno Arner

Elias Set Jeno Arner MD, PhD

Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

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Elias Arnér, MD PhD, was appointed Professor in Biochemistry in 2009 and is Head of the Biochemistry Division in the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at Karolinska Institutet (KI). He received his PhD (1993) and MD (1997) as a student of an MD PhD program at KI. His PhD thesis was on nucleotide metabolism and nucleoside analogs as therapeutics. He did his post docs first with Prof. Arne Holmgren (Stockholm) on mammalian thioredoxin reductase as a selenoprotein, and subsequently with August Böck (Munich) on the production of thioredoxin reductase as a recombinant selenoprotein in E. coli. Developing techniques for recombinant selenoprotein synthesis in E. coli and to study structure-function relationships of selenoproteins, especially isoforms of thioredoxin reductase, has since been a main line of research in the Arnér laboratory.

His additional interests are to develop biotechnological applications of selenoproteins, to understand redox signaling pathways in mammalian cells, and to develop novel anticancer therapies that target selenoproteins as their mechanism of action. Arnér has published 120 articles found in PubMed, with 12,100+ citations and an h-index of 45 (Google Scholar). In his role as Chair of the Se2017 conference he welcomes all participants to, as he hopes and trusts, a fruitful and vibrant meeting with many discussions on selenium research in all of its numerous and exciting aspects.
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