Hans Wigzell, MD, PhD

Hans Wigzell, M.D., Ph.D. has served as a member of our Board since June 2010. He also serves as a member of our nominating and corporate governance committee and a member of and chair of our research and development committee.

Dr. Wigzell currently serves as chairman of Rhenman & Partners Asset Management AB, an investment management firm, and director of RaySearch Laboratories AB, a medical technology company. Since 2022, Dr. Wigzell has also served as chairman of the board of RaySearch Laboratories AB. From 2006 to 2020, Dr. Wigzell served as a director of Karolinska Development AB, a company listed on the Nasdaq OMX Stockholm market that selects, develops and seeks ways to commercialize promising new Nordic lifescience innovations. He also served as the chairman of Karolinska Development AB from 2017 to 2020. From 1995 to 2003, he was the President of the Karolinska Institute, a medical university and was General Director of the National Bacteriological Laboratory in Stockholm from 1987 to 1993. Dr. Wigzell is chairman of the board of the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship. He is an elected member of several national academies, including the Swedish Royal Engineering Academy, Sweden; the Royal Academy of Science, Sweden; the Danish Academy of Arts and Letters; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Finnish Science Society; and the European Molecular Biology Organization. In addition to serving as President of the Karolinska Institute, his academic career includes being Chairman of the Nobel Prize Committee, and the Karolinska Institute and Distinguished External Advisory Professor of Ehime University, Japan. Additionally, Dr. Wigzell was appointed Chairman of the Nobel Assembly in 2000.

Dr. Wigzell holds an M.D. and Ph.D. from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and he has received honorary doctorate degrees at University “Tor Vergata” in Rome, Italy, Turku University in Finland, The Feinstein Institute in New York and Helsinki University in Finland.