Karin Sundström

Karin Sundström is a Principal Researcher at the Karolinska Institute, affiliated with the Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology and leading the Human papillomavirus which causes cervical cancer – Research Group. She serves as a research group leader and cancer epidemiologist with extensive experience in molecular epidemiology and biobank infrastructure utilization.

• MD-PhD trained medical scientist
• Active in eHealth and big data applications
• Principal investigator for multiple international collaborations

Research Interests:

• HPV-associated cancer elimination
• Biomarker development for female cancers
• Register-based cervical screening optimization
• Next-generation sequencing applications
• Machine learning in medical records analysis
• Epidemiology of herpes zoster

Scientific Contributions: With over 20 publications in 2023-2024 alone, her work spans HPV vaccination effectiveness, cervical screening algorithms, and cancer risk stratification using epigenetic markers. Her MERMAID III initiative focuses on ovarian cancer prevention through biomarker research.

Selected Awards:

• Swedish Cancer Society Project Grant (2022-2023)
• CIMED Junior Grant (2020-2022)
• Jonas Söderquist Award for Virology Research (2016)

Academic Leadership: Supervises multiple doctoral and postdoctoral researchers including Dr. Jiangrong Wang, and serves as study director for KI's Diagnostic Cytology program. Previously coordinated the Nordic Information for Action eScience Center (NIASC) eHealth projects.