Jan Albert is a professor in infectious disease control especially virology at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, and a senior consultant in clinical virology at the Department of Microbiology at the Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Jan Albert obtained his degree as MD at Karolinska Institutet in 1983 and PhD at Karolinska Institutet in 1990. He became specialist in Clinical Virology in 1990, assistant professor at Karolinska Institutet in 1992 and in 2006 became full professor in Infectious Disease Control especially Virology, Karolinska Institutet. Jan Albert has published more than 200 referee-examined scientific papers. The research is different aspects of HIV evolution and variability and its biological consequences using conventional and next-generation sequencing. This includes how HIV evades cellular and humoral immunity. We use sophisticated molecular epidemiology and phylogenetics to track the spread of HIV in Sweden and abroad. We also study the emergence and spread of HIV variants that are resistant to antiretroviral drugs.
