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Erik Smedler

Researcher

Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry
Mail
erik.smedler@gu.se
Visiting address
Blå Stråket 15, vån 3, Sahlgrenska universitetssjukhuset
41345 Göteborg
Postal address
Blå Stråket 15, vån 3, Sahlgrenska universitetssjukhuset
41345 Göteborg

About Erik Smedler

Dr Smedler is a resident physician in psychiatry at Sahlgrenska University Hospital (SU) and research group leader at Gothenburg University (GU). He is a member of the Young Academy of Sweden since 2024. Prior to that, he received his MD-PhD at Karolinska Institutet and MSc in engineering physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. His thesis was focused on neural networks and calcium signaling. Next he moved to Gothenburg for postdoc in the group of Mikael Landén at GU 2017-2019 and medical internship at SU. 2020 he started residency in psychiatry at SU and his own independent research group with an ALF-position. February 2022 he was appointed docent (associate professor) in psychiatry. This year he was also granted two different major starting grants from the Swedish Research Council and the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine.

Dr Smedler is member of the ECNP iPSCs Platform for Neuropsychiatry Network, Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Functional Genomics subgroup as well as founder of the Swedish human IPS network (ShiPS) and regional research network BRAINWEST. 

Publications

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Research group

Molecular psychiatry

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