Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH)

Using light as a tool, Markus Kärkäs develops new and more sustainable ways of building complex molecules. He has now been promoted to professor at KTH.

"It feels very rewarding, of course, and at the same time it is a recognition of the work I have put in over many years."

KTH’s 200th anniversary will have to wait until 2027, but there is already cause for celebration this year: the Bachelor of Science in Engineering programmes are turning 30! This summer, the Chemical Engineering programme celebrated its anniversary with a large party. Now it is the turn of the programmes in Flemingsberg to mark three decades of engineering education.

Join the celebrations on 25 November!

Greek researcher Vasileios Tseliou recently moved to Stockholm. He is an Assistant Professor in Biocatalysis for Green Chemistry, working at the Department of Industrial Biotechnology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He wants to develop enzymes capable of performing reactions never seen in nature.

Johan Rockberg has been awarded the title of “Distinguished Innovator” by the Novo Nordisk Foundation along with 11 million Swedish kronor in research funding. The money will go towards further development of the gene therapy platform developed by Rockberg’s research team to enable targeted treatment of kidney diseases.

“Chronic kidney disease affects more than 800 million people, and a third of cases are caused by DNA mutations that could be cured with an effective gene therapy,” Rockberg says. 

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