BioInsights talks to Prof. Olle Lindvall, Lund University, Sweden

Olle Lindvall received his PhD in 1974 and MD in 1978 and became Professor and Senior Consultant in clinical neurology at Lund University Hospital, Sweden, in 1992. He is Senior Professor since 2014. He was leading the clinical cell transplantation program for Parkinson’s patients at Lund University Hospital between 1983 and 2012. This program pioneered the use of neuronal replacement as a novel therapeutic strategy to restore function in the diseased human brain. Lindvall’s experimental laboratory is working with transplantation of stem cells and reprogrammed cells, and neurogenesis from the brain’s own neural stem cells after various insults. Olle Lindvall has published around 500 articles, review articles and book chapters. In 2007-2008, he Co-chaired the International Society for Stem Cell Research Task Force for the Clinical Translation of Stem Cells. Lindvall has received numerous Prizes and Awards. Since 2010, he is the Chairman for the Class for Medical Sciences at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.