About
Tove Fall is a Professor of Molecular Epidemiology at Uppsala University's Department of Medical Sciences. She leads a research group focused on identifying risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Her work integrates advanced bioinformatics with large-scale population studies, including proteomics, metabolomics, and national health registers. She has held significant academic positions since 2013, including establishing her independent research group in 2016.
Education: Veterinary Medicine (SLU, 2005), PhD in 2009 (thesis on canine diabetes), postdoctoral training at Karolinska Institutet.
Research Interests: Molecular epidemiology of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases; gut microbiota's role in vascular health; causal inference methods; pediatric asthma epidemiology; pandemic response strategies (e.g., 2020-2022 Covid Symptom Study Sweden).
Recent Article Trends: Focus on gut microbiota-cardiovascular links, metabolic biomarkers, and pandemic health surveillance. Highlights include SCAPIS cohort studies (8,416 participants) and Mendelian randomization analyses.
Awards: Multiple prestigious recognitions including the Göran Gustafsson Prize in Medicine 2025 and Thureus Prize 2021. Grants: ERC Starting Grant (2018), Swedish Research Council, Swedish Diabetes Foundation.
Labs/Teams: Leads the Molecular Epidemiology Group at Uppsala; collaborates with international networks including CRUSH-Covid and the SCAPIS cohort study.
