Mouna Esmaeilzadeh

Mouna Esmaeilzadeh (Persian: مونا اسماعیل زاده; born April 15, 1980) is a medical doctor, neuroscientist, entrepreneur and TV personality. She has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Stockholm Brain Institute at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. She often appears on Swedish TV covering science and technology.

Mouna Esmaeilzadeh
Mouna Esmaeilzadeh in August 2014
Born (1980-04-15) April 15, 1980
Tehran, Iran
NationalitySwedish/Iranian
Alma materKarolinska Institutet (M.D, Ph.D.)
Occupation(s)Physician, neuroscientist and entrepreneur

Biography

Mouna Esmaeilzadeh was born in Tehran and moved to Stockholm, Sweden with her family at the age of three. Her older brother is Saeid Esmaeilzadeh. She is married to Danish entrepreneur Rasmus Ingerslev one of the founders of Barry's Bootcamp.[1]

Esmaeilzadeh began her academic career studying philosophy at Stockholm University and received her master's degree at University of Oslo. She went on to study medicine at Karolinska Institutet receiving her medical license in 2005 and her Ph.D. in neuroscience in 2011 specializing in PET-imaging and the dopamine system in the brain. Her thesis was written at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet and had the title of "Towards a novel treatment of Huntington's Disease".[2]

She competes as a celebrity dancer in Let's Dance 2022, which is broadcast by TV4. [3]

Entrepreneurship

Esmaeilzadeh founded SciLife Clinic in 2009, a longevity clinic. Esmaeilzadeh has been the doctor and personal advisor to the Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang and Swedish business icon Anders Wall.

Scholarship

Her work on longevity has been cited in medical publications on the subject.[4][5]

Public speaking

Esmaeilzadeh is a recurring guest at Swedish national TV4 Nyhetsmorgon speaking about popular science, where she covers topics such as longevity, artificial intelligence, and genetics.[6][7][8]

References
  1. "Danske karatemannen går all-in på gym". Dagens PS (in Swedish). 2017-10-30. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  2. "Mouna Esmaeilzadeh:"Towards a novel treatment of Huntington's Disease"" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-03-16. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  3. Lindqvist, Johan (27 February 2022). "Här är alla deltagarna i årets "Let's dance"". Göteborgs-Posten. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  4. ""Krankheit erzeugt Angst": Mouna will ewig leben". Archived from the original on 2017-02-13. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  5. ""I framtiden kan vi kanske leva nästan för alltid"". Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
  6. "Här är roboten som kan ta över läkares jobb - Nyhetsmorgon (TV4)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2017-02-13.
  7. "Klippa ut gener - och byta till andra? Ny metod kan bota sjukdomar - Nyhetsmorgon (TV4)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2017-02-13.
  8. ""De som föds i dag kan bli 150 år" - Nyhetsmorgon (TV4)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2017-02-13.
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