Henrik Grönberg MD, PhD

Henrik Gronberg earned his medical and doctoral degree at Umea University in 1985 and 1995, respectively. In 2001, he was appointed as a professor of oncology at Umea University and in 2005 professor of cancer epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He was also a board-certified medical oncologist since 1994 and worked at the Oncology Clinic at Umea University Hospital between 1989 and 2005. At Umea University Hospital he was also responsible for the cancer genetics clinic, including genetic counseling and mutation screening.

Gronberg served as chair of the study section of cancer epidemiology at the Swedish Cancer Society between 2002 and 2009. He was the Swedish representative at the WHO agency IARC (International Agency of Cancer Research) in Lyon between 2008 and 2011. He was the chairman of the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet between 2008 and 2013.