Professor in Microbiology, at the School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm and Director at Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm

Professor Uhlén is currently working on the Human Protein Resource Project (HPR), with the aim to systematically map the human proteome. At present, the Human Protein Atlas portal (www.proteinatlas.org) contains more than 5 million high-resolution images representing 5000 human proteins.

He is the member of prestigious organizations including the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (KVA), the Swedish Academy of Engineering Science (IVA), the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), HUPO Council (Human Proteome Organization) and he is chairman of the HUPO international Human Antibody Initiative (HAI).

Mainly through the HPR program, he has more than 30 formal international collaborations on-going.

Professor Uhlén holds more than 50 international patent applications, is the founder of several companies, including Pyrosequencing AB (now Biotage AB), Affibody AB, SweTree Technologies AB, Magnetic Biosolutions AB (now Nordiag AS), Atlas Antibodies AB and Creative Peptides AB. He is a board member of several biotechnology companies and adviser to several venture capital firms.

He has also received numerous prestigious awards, including The Svedberg prize in 1992, the Göran Gustavsson prize in 1993, the gold medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2004, the Most Noble Order of the Seraphim - the Order of His Majesty the King in 2004, the Jerker Porath award in 2005, the Akzo Noble Award in 2005, the HUPO Distinguished Award and KTH Great Prize both in 2006 and the Scheele prize in 2007.