Per Nyman

Per Nyman is a Senior Consultant in Paediatric Oncology at Linköping University Hospital and heads paediatric neuro-oncology for Sweden’s South-East Healthcare Region. Parallel to his clinical duties he is a PhD student in Medical Radiophysics at Linköping University, embedded in the Center for Medical Image Science & Visualization (CMIV) Research School and the Unit of Radiological Sciences.

Education:

• 2021 – present: PhD student, Medical Radiophysics, Linköping University & CMIV
• 2019: Specialist degree, Paediatric Oncology & Haematology, Linköping University Hospital
• 2015: Specialist degree, Paediatrics, Linköping University Hospital
• 2009: Doctor of Medicine, Linköping/Motala Hospitals
• 2007: Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery, Lund University

Research focus:
His doctoral work targets novel magnetic-resonance biomarkers for childhood brain tumours, AI-assisted digital pathology, and germ-line/epigenetic predisposition to cancer (project OncoABIS). He leverages multicentre European cohorts to correlate imaging metrics with post-surgical morbidity such as cerebellar mutism and language impairment.

Scientific output trend:
Five 2025 publications illustrate a trajectory toward quantitative, imaging-driven risk stratification in posterior-fossa and embryonal CNS tumours, emphasising prospective multicentre design and cross-linguistic neuro-cognitive endpoints.

Networks & committees:

• Swedish Society of Medicine
• NOPHO Brain Tumour & CNS tumour working groups
• SIOPe Craniopharyngioma Working Group
• Steering group, Swedish Childhood Tumour Biobank (BTB)
• Nomination Committee, Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund
• NB-CNS (Neuroblastoma & CNS Tumour Research Network) steering group

He teaches paediatric oncology within the LiU medical programme (course K10) and collaborates closely with radiological-science colleagues Peter Lundberg, Ida Blystad, Anders Tisell and Anna Ljusberg.