Håkan Andersson International Peptide Symposium 2023

Håkan Andersson

Early career (PhD, applied biochemistry, Lund University 1999) focused on prediction, preparation, and evaluation of molecularly imprinted polymer selectivity via analysis of pre-polymerisation/complexation, polymer synthesis, radioligand binding, and chromatographic analysis of polymer-ligand recognition. Later research focus switched to structure-function relationships of bioactive peptides, involving their discovery, purification from biological materials, sequencing and characterisation (MS/NGS/NKR), synthesis (SPPS) and bioassays. Major project: the discovery, characterisation, elaboration and structure-activity relationships of bioactive peptides in nemerteans (marine worms). After many years as a university lecturer at the Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden since 2019 senior lecture/associate professor and Director of undergraduate studies at the Dept of Medical Biochemistry & Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, and a guest researcher at the Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences at Uppsala University, in a long-standing collaboration with prof Ulf Göransson.