Birgitta Henriques-Normark
Birgitta Henriques-Normark | |
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Henriques-Normark at the 2024 Nobel Prize lectures | |
| Born | 22 June 1958 |
| Alma mater | Karolinska Institute |
| Spouse | Staffan Normark |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Streptococcus pneumoniae : molecular epidemiology of isolates causing invasive disease and characterization of tolerance responses to lytic antibiotics (2000) |
Birgitta Henriques Normark is a Swedish physician and researcher, focusing on the field of host-bacteria interactions and pneumococcal infections. She is a professor of Clinical Microbiology at the Karolinska Institute and is the head physician at the Karolinska University Hospital. She is a member of a number of academies including the European Academy of Microbiology, the American Academy of Microbiology, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, of which she was elected president in 2022.