Dr. Johan Ankarklev

Johan Ankarklev is a newly established Group Leader at the Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute at Stockholm University. He is a dedicated parasitologist with a strong background in molecular biology and his passion lies within addressing basic biological questions relating to important infectious diseases. Of particular interest are the transmission stages in the complex lifecycle of the malaria parasite.

Being a Stockholm Native, Johan grew up playing ice hockey, which led him to move to Canada at the age of 16. After high school, he ended up doing his undergraduate studies in biology at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. In 2004 Johan returned to Sweden to complete his MSc in molecular biology followed by a PhD on the topic of comparative genomics of the intestinal parasite Giardia intestinalis at Uppsala University. During his postdoc years at Harvard University, Boston, MA, and Weill-Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, Johan switched his focus to malaria, and since the summer of 2017, he runs his own research group at MBW, Stockholm University.