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Position

Professor in Environmental Pharmacology

Title

MSc, PhD, Professor

Personal information

Name: Dan Göran Joakim Larsson
Born: 1969 in Ljungby, Sweden

Appointments

University/Department

2016-: Director, Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research (CARe) at University of Gothenburg

2013-: Professor in Environmental Pharmacology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg

2012-2015: Senior Scientist in Translational Pharmacology at the Swedish Research Council hosted by the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Institute for Biomedicine

2009-2012: Senior Scientist in Translational Pharmacology at the Swedish Research Council hosted by the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Institute for Neuroscience and Physiology

2007-2013: Associate Professor (Docent) in Physiology. The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg

2003-2007: Assistant Professor. The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Institute for Neuroscience and Physiology
 

Postdoc Universities/Departments

2001-2003, 18 months: Göteborg University, Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology (Medicine/Physiology)

2000-2001, 12 months: Marine Science
University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute, USA (Zoophysiology/Toxicology)

1994-1995, 12 months: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Ocean Sciences Centre, Canada (“pre-doc”)
 

Graduate University/Department

1993-2000: Göteborg University, Dept. of Zoology (Zoophysiology, PhD)
 

Undergraduate Universities

1991-1993: Göteborg University (Biology MSc)

1989-1991: Linköping university (Chemistry/Biology)
 

Selected, recent commissions of trust

Scientific advisor on AMR to the Swedish Minister of Health and Social Affairs (Jakob Forssmed) in his role as member of the Global Leaders Group on AMR (2023-2024).

World Health Organization (WHO), lead scientific consultant for the development of a guidance on wastewater and solid waste management for manufacturing of antibiotics (2023-2024).

Scientific Advisory Board Member, Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR) 2022-2024.

Member of the WHO expert group, developing the WHO Global AMR Research Agenda in Human Health, launched in June 2023.

Scientific advisor on AMR to the Swedish Minister of Health and Social Affairs (Lena Hallengren) in her role as vice-chair of the Global Leaders Group on AMR (2022).

 

Awards

National prize in effective research communication 2023 by Örebro University and the Hamrin Foundation (University of Gothenburg, Institute of Biomedicine)

Highly cited researcher (top 1%) 2023 (Clarivate Analytics/Web of Science).

Highly cited researcher (top 1%) 2022 (Clarivate Analytics/Web of Science).

Highly cited researcher (top 1%) 2021 (Clarivate Analytics/Web of Science).

Highly cited researcher (top 1%) 2020 (Clarivate Analytics/Web of Science).

Highly cited researcher (top 1%) 2019 (Clarivate Analytics/Web of Science).

Highly cited researcher (top 1%) 2018 (Clarivate Analytics/Web of Science).

Distinguished guest lecturer of the year, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK 2018.

Eric K Fernströms prize for young, particularly promising and successful scientists 2012.

The Swedish King Carl XVI Gustav's 50-year foundation award in Environmental Sciences.
 

Teaching

1. Undergraduate teaching

Since the start of my PhD studies, I have regularly been teaching endocrinology, physiology and environmental science for undergraduate students on various courses, including the programmes in medicine, odontology, pharmacy, nutrition, nursing, biomedical analysis and biology. The last few years, I primarily teach about aspects related to pharmaceuticals in the environment and about antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in general.
 

2. Supervised postdocs, PhD, Master and BSc students

2024- Noel Waters, PhD-student, supervisor
2024- Sophia Axillus, PhD-student, co-supervisor
2024- Laleh Vargaei, PhD-student, co-supervisor
2023- Nhung Nguyen Thi, postdoctoral fellow
2023- Gbemisola Allwell Brown, postdoctoral fellow 
2023- Gilbert Osena, PhD-student, supervisor 
2023- Zhuofeng Yu, postdoctoral fellow, Microbiology 
2022- Julian Bobis Camacho, PhD-student, co-supervisor
2021- Roelof Coertze, postdoctoral fellow/researcher, Microbiology
2021- 2023 Stefan Ebmeyer, postdoctoral fellow, Bioinformatics 
2021- Mutshiene Deogratias Ekwanzala, postdoctoral fellow/researcher, Microbiology
2020- David Lund, PhD-student, co-supervisor
2020- Emil Burman, PhD-student, co-supervisor
2020- Declan Gray, postdoctoral fellow/researcher, Microbiology
2019-2021 Nicolas Kieffer, postdoctoral researcher, Molecular Biology
2019-2023 Fanny Berglund, postdoctoral researcher, Bioinformatics
2016-2021. Stefan Ebmeyer, PhD, Bioinformatics, supervisor
2017-2019. Antti Karkman, postdoctoral researcher, Bioinformatics
2016-2019. Patricia Huijbers, postdoctoral researcher, Microbiology
2016-2020. Maria-Elisabeth Böhm, postdoctoral researcher, Microbiology
2016-2018. Stathis Kotsakis, postdoctoral fellow, Microbiology
2016-2020. Nadine Kraupner, postdoctoral fellow, Microbiology
2014-2019. Fanny Berglund, PhD, Bioinformatics, ass. supervisor
2014-2019. Jessica Guzman-Otazo, PhD, Microbiology, ass. supervisor
2014-2020. Mohammad Razavi, PhD, Bioinformatics, supervisor
2014-2018. Jekaterina Jutkina, postdoctoral fellow, Microbiology
2014-2018. Nachiket Marathe, postdoctoral fellow, Microbiology
2013-2015. Kim-Andreas Æbelø, Amanuens, Medicine, supervisor
2013-2016. Sara Lundström, postdoctoral fellow, Ecotoxicology
2012-2017. Chandan Pal, PhD, Bioinformatics, supervisor
2012- Triranta Sircar, PhD, Environmental microbiology, ass. supervisor
2011-2014. Carl-Johan Svensson, postdoctoral fellow, amanuensis
2011-2018. Johan Bengtsson-Palme, PhD, Bioinformatics, supervisor
2011- Carl-Fredrik Flach, researcher, Microbiology
2011. Karin Lind, MSc, Physiology, supervisor
2011. Marija Svijovic, postdoctoral fellow, Bioinformatics
2010-2011. Bethanie Carney-Almroth, postdoctoral fellow, Ecotoxicology
2010. Bart Adriaenssens, postdoctoral fellow, Animal behavior
2010-2014. Lina Gunnarsson, postdoctoral fellow, Molecular biology
2010-2014. Anna Johnning, PhD, Bioinformatics, supervisor
2010-2013. Ida Nilsson, Amanuens, Medicine, supervisor
2010. Johan Grönvall, BSc, Physiology, supervisor
2009-2011. Anders Janzon, postdoctoral fellow, Microbiology
2009-2014. Carolin Rutgersson, PhD, Physiology, supervisor
2008- 2015. Anna Bylander, PhD, Physiology, supervisor
2008-2009. Carolin Rutgersson, MSc, Human physiology, supervisor
2008-2012. Filip Cuklev, PhD, Physiology, supervisor
2008-2010. Erik Kristiansson, postdoctoral fellow, Bioinformatics
2007-2008. Noomi Asker, postdoctoral fellow, Molecular biology, supervisor
2007. Anna Holmberg, postdoctoral fellow, Zoophysiology
2005-2011. Jeffrey Brown, postdoctoral fellow, Chemistry
2006-2011. Andreas Kullgren, PhD, Zoophysiology, ass. supervisor
2006-2009. Anders Friberg, PhD, Physiology, ass. supervisor
2005. Linda Augustsson, MSc, Physiology, supervisor
2005. Stina Fredriksson, MSc, Zoophysiology, ass. supervisor
2005-2011. Eva Albertsson, PhD, Zoophysiology, ass. supervisor
2004-2009. Linda Samuelsson, postdoctoral fellow, Metabolomics
2004-2009. Lina Gunnarsson, PhD, Physiology, supervisor
2003-2009. Magdalena Nutu, PhD, Physiology, supervisor
2003. Åsa Ek MSc, Human Physiology, supervisor
2002. Anna Henricsson, MSc, Human Physiology, supervisor
1998. Magnus Nilsson, MSc, Zoophysiology, ass. supervisor
1998. Hans Hällman, MSc, Environmental Science, ass. supervisor
1997. Jari Parkkonen, MSc, Zoophysiology, ass. supervisor

Major research grants

2025-2027. Regional ALF-funding. Development of antibiotic resistance: the role of hospital wastewater. 5,250,000 SEK to JL.

2024-2028. Sahgrenska Academy. Sewage as an arena for the selection of antibiotic resistance. Support to PhD student (70%) corresponding to ca 2,000,000 SEK.

2024-2026. VR (Natural Sciences). New resistance genes against antibiotics: mobilization, transfer and selection. 4,000,000 to Erik Kristiansson (Joakim Larsson is co-applicant).

2024-2027. The SciLifeLab & Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS). Predicting the future spread of antibiotic resistance genes. 3,250,000 to Kristiansson (Joakim Larsson and Johan Bengtsson-Palme are co-applicants).

2024-2027. FORMAS. Antibiotic rivers: impacts of antibiotic exposure on the gut microbiome of fish and consequence for health, behaviour, and cognition. 3,994,252 SEK to Jake Martin (JL is one of five co-applicants).

2023-2025. VR (medicine and health). Unaccounted risk factors for the mobilization and transfer of antibiotic resistance genes from the environmental reservoir to human pathogens. 2,400,000 to JL.

2023-2025. Regionala Utvecklingsnämnden (RUN). Centrum för Antibiotikaresistensforskning i Göteborg (CARe). 1,500,000 SEK till GU.

2022-2025. Wellcome Trust. Sewage monitoring – a new, resource-efficient method for population-based surveillance of antibiotic resistance. 10,200,000 SEK to Carl-Fredrik Flach (JL co-applicant).

2022-2024. Regional ALF-funding. Development of antibiotic resistance: the role of hospital wastewater. 4,500,000 SEK to JL.

2022-2024. FORMAS. Hospital sewers as an arena for selection and evolution of antibiotic resistance. 3,000,000 SEK to JL.

2021-2024. JPIAMR, JPI OCEANS, JPI Water. "Antibacterial biocides in the water cycle – an integrated approach to assess and manage risks for antibiotic resistance development" (BIOCIDE). Ca 17,000,000 SEK (out of which 5,000,000 to UGOT). The project is coordinated by UGOT, Institute of Biomedicine (Joakim Larsson) with local collaborators, and with external partners from Umeå University (Sweden), Institute of Marine Research (Bergen, Norway), Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (Berlin, Germany), Technical University of Denmark (Lyngby, Denmark), University of Bucharest (Bucharest, Romania) and University of South Bohemia (Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic). The Swedish Research Council VR (Medicine and Health) funds UGOT. See also https://www.gu.se/en/biocide

2019-2024. VR (medicine and health). The Environment as a Driver of Antibiotic Resistance - EDAR. 22,400,000 SEK.

2019-2022. VR (medicin och hälsa). Miljöns betydelse för selektion och evolution av antibiotikaresistens. 5,600,000 SEK.

2019-2021. FORMAS. Miljöns betydelse för selektion och evolution av antibiotikaresistens. 2,997,000 SEK.

2018-2021. Regional ALF-funding: Resistance surveillance via analyses of hospital effluents. 3,000,000 SEK to JL.

2017-2018. Svenskt Vatten Utveckling. The spread of sewage sludge on farmland – long term effects on soils and crops and effects on antibiotic resistance. 474,000 SEK allocated for antibiotic resistance (JL responsible PI).

2016-2022. University of Gothenburg. Funding for an interdisciplinary Centre For Antibiotic Resistance Research at UGOT (CARe) within the “UGOT-challenges initiative”. 50MSEK is budgeted for the entire period.

2016-2018. VR (medicine and health). The role of antibiotics in the environment for the emergence, selection and transfer of antibiotic resistance. 2.1 MSEK. Project grant.

2016-2018. FORMAS. The role of antibiotics in the environment for the emergence, selection and transfer of antibiotic resistance. 3.0 MSEK. Project grant.

2016-2017. Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. Evaluation of advanced treatment of sewage effluent in full scale. Research project funded with 4,032,000 SEK to UmU, KTH, SLU and GU for year three and four of the project period.

2015. University of Gothenburg. Planning grant for an application to establish an interdisciplinary Centre For Antibiotic Resistance Research at UGOT. 0.5 MSEK.

2015. Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. Evaluation of advanced treatment of sewage effluent in full scale.Research project funded with 3,000,000 SEK to UmU, KTH, SLU and GU for year two of the project period.

2015-2017. Regional ALF-funding: Resistance surveillance via analyses of hospital effluents. 2,600,000 SEK to JL.

2014-2018. Sahlgrenska Academy, UGOT. On the recruitment of antibiotic resistance determinants from environmental bacteria to human pathogens. 70% funding for PhD student to JL.

2014. Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. Evaluation of advanced treatment of sewage effluent in full scale.
Research project funded with 2,480,000 SEK to UmU, KTH, SLU and GU for year one of the project period.

2014-2017: VR. NoCURE: Novel Carbapenemases – UnRaveling the Enviromental reservoir. 11,400,000 SEK to JL.

2012-2017: FORMAS. Funding for a strong research environment. INTERACT - The interaction of metals and biocides with the selection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. 25,000,000 SEK to JL.

2012-2015. VR (medicine and health). Personal grant providing a senior scientist position in “Translational Pharmacology” with a focus on “Pharmaceutical pollution – antibiotic resistance development and mode-of-action based test strategies”. 3,804,000 SEK to JL.

2012-2015. MISTRA. MistraPharma - Identification and reduction of environmental risks caused by human pharmaceuticals. 52,000,000 SEK. JL is one of 8 partners in the application group.

2012-2015. Gothenburg Centre for Marine Science Antibiotic resistance in marine bacteria - The role of biocides and metals in the marine environment for promoting and maintaining antibiotic resistance. Funding for two interdisciplinary pair-PhD students to JL (Sahlgrenska Academy) and Hans Blanck (Science Faculty).

2012-2016. FORMAS – strong research environment. NICE – Novel Instruments for effect-based assessment of Chemical pollution in coastal Ecosystems. The program, coordinated by Dr Thomas Backhaus, involves 12 partners from the Gothenburg region. The JL group is mainly involved in work on bacterial metagenomics. 25,000,000 SEK.

2012-2015. VR (natural and engineering sciences). Characterization of antibiotic resistance in bacterial communities: novel methods using next generation sequencing. 3,200,000 SEK. Project grant to Erik Kristiansson (JL is one of three co-applicants).

2012-2015. VR (natural and engineering sciences). Novel methods for improved statistical inference in quantitative metagenomics. 3,600,000 SEK. Project grant to Erik Kristiansson (JL is one of four co-applicants).

2012-2013. LUA-ALF. Multi-drug-resistant Gram-negative infectious bacteria: new genotypic and phenotypic developments for diagnostics and epidemiological control within the clinical environment. 1,600,000 SEK. Project grant to Edward B Moore (JL is one of several co-applicants).

2011-2013. FORMAS. Does a high level of antibiotic pollution increase risks for mobilization of resistance genes from the environment to the human microflora - exploratory studies including deep sequencing. 5,500,000 SEK.

2011-2013. VR (medicine and health). Antibiotic resistance in the external environment - the role of antibiotic pollution in the selection of resistance and subsequent gene transfer to the human microbiome. 1,800,000 SEK. Project grant.

2009-2012 (2015). VR (medicine). Senior scientist in “translational pharmacology” 3 years (3,255,000 SEK) with possibilities to extend 3 years, plus 1,000,000 SEK starting grant for an application on “Pharmaceutical pollution – antibiotic resistance development and mode-of-action based test strategies”.

2009-2012. BONUS (Baltic Organization Network for Funding Science). BALCOFISH - Integration of pollutant gene responses and fish ecology in Baltic coastal fisheries and management. 1,627,763 EURO. JL is one of 7 principal investigators.

2009-2011. SIDA. Microbial diversity and development of antibiotic resistance associated with industrial wastewater treatment. 750,000 SEK to ERB Moore (JL co-applicant).

2008-2012. Göteborg Research School for Environment and Health. Consumption of inexpensive medicines – increased risks for resistance development and environmental effects? 1,800,000 SEK to JL.

2008-2011. MISTRA. MistraPharma – identification and reduction of environmental risks caused by the use of human pharmaceuticals. 44,200,000 SEK. JL is one of seven partners in the application group.

2008-2010. FORMAS. Endocrine disruption of non-genomic progesterone signaling - consequences for gamete transport and sex ratios. 2,587,950 SEK to JL.

2008-2010. Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and MISTRA. Swedish field studies to evaluate ecotoxicological effects of pharmaceuticals in sewage effluents. 438,000 SEK to JL.

2008-2009. Stockholm Vatten. Fortsatta fiskförsök för att utvärdera reningsmetoder som avlägsnar läkemedelsrester. 479,900 SEK to JL.

2007-2009. FORMAS. Multi-Endpoint Microarray Analyses in Biological Effect Monitoring of Wild Fish Populations. 3,280,500 SEK to L Förlin and J Larsson.

2007-2011. GU (Science faculty – strategical area). Ecotoxicology – from gene to ocean. 12,500,000 SEK. J Larsson co-applicant with L Förlin, H Blanck, G Dave and M Celander.

2007-2008. Adlerbertska Research Foundation. Assessing the risks for bacterial resistance development in effluents from Indian pharmaceutical industries 135,000 SEK

2006-2007. SIDA. Studies of the effluent toxicity from the Patancheru Enviro-Tech Ltd plant in Hyderabad, India to direct further actions including possible mitiations. 231,000 SEK to JL.

2006-2007. MISTRA. Planning grant for a research program application on Pharmaceuticals in the Environment. 300,000 SEK to KTH, GU, UmU, SU and Kemi&Miljö.

2006-2010. GU (Science faculty – strategical area). Göteborg Research platform on Integrative Physiology (GRIP). 14,000,000 SEK. Coordinator S. Holmgren (24 principal investigators).

2006-2007. FORMAS. Pharmaceuticals in the Environment – Development of Biological Fingerprints. 1,000,000 to JL

2005-2006. VA-FORSK. Analysesof pharmaceutical residues in fish blood for evaluation of environmental effects of sewage effluents. 358,600 SEK to JL.

2004-2007. MISTRA. Pharmaceuticals in the Environment Development of Biological Fingerprints. 1,670,000; 1,730,000; 1,660,000 and 2,310,000 SEK to JL

2005-2006. Swedish Research Council (VR-Medicine). Project grant. Project K2005-72X-14572-03A to JL: How does progesterone control programmed cell death – specific roles of membrane progesterone receptors. 225,000 SEK per year

2004-2005. FORMAS. Pharmaceuticals in the Environment – Development of Biological Fingerprints. 1120,000 and 1050,000 SEK to JL.

2003-2004. Adlerbertska Research Foundation. Pharmaceuticals in the Environment – development of biological fingerprints. 50,000 SEK to JL.

2003. GUVR (Göteborg University Science Council). Interdisciplinary project planning grant: Environmental effects of pharmaceuticals. 50,000 SEK to JL.

2003-2006. Swedish Research Council (Medicin). Position as Assistant Professor. Project 2003/B1664 to JL. 643,000 SEK per year

2003-2004. Swedish Research Council (Medicin). Special funding for young scientists. Project 2003/B0828 to JL: How does progesterone control programmed cell death? 208,000 SEK per year

2003-2004. Swedish Research Council (Medicin). Bioscience project 2003/B0828B to JL: How does progesterone control programmed cell death? 52,000 SEK per year

2002. FORMAS (The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning). Disturbed sex ratios in aquatic organisms exposed to pulp mill effluents. Co-investigator. 520,000 SEK.

2001. MISTRA (Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research). Sublethal effects of endocrine disrupters in fish. Co-investigator. 400,000 SEK.

2001. Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. What causes masculinization and other endocrine disturbances in fish downstream pulpmills? Co-investigator. 350,000 SEK.

2000-2001. Södra Cell. Studies of endocrine changes in fish in the recipient from Mönsterås bruk. Principal Investigator. 190,000 SEK.

2000. MISTRA. Sublethal effects of endocrine disrupters in fish. Co-investigator. 400,000 SEK.

2000. Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. What causes masculinization and other endocrine disturbances in fish downstream pulpmills? Co-investigator. 300,000 SEK.

1999-2000. Södra Cell. Studies of endocrine changes in fish in the recipient from Mönsterås bruk. Co-investigator. 550,000 SEK.

1999. MISTRA Sublethal effects of endocrine disrupters in fish. Co-investigator. 400,000 SEK.