Kári Stefánsson
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| Gender | Female |
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| Born | Iceland |
| Children | Solveig Karadottir |
| Founded | DeCODE Genetics |
| Job | Neurologist |
| Education | University of Iceland |
| Harvard University | |
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| ID | 524198 |
Kári Stefánsson Life story
Kári Stefánsson, is an Icelandic neurologist, who is the President, Chairman, CEO and co-founder of deCODE Genetics. He has pioneered the monitoring of the DNA of a large fraction of an entire country's population leading to a complete genealogy of its native inhabitants.
UK Biobank: DNA unlock coronavirus secrets
... Chief executive Kari Stefansson said: “There is the possibility that the diversity of the people is the response to the virus is rooted in the sequence, the diversity of the virus itself -that we are able to many strains of the virus that are in our community, and some of them are more aggressive than others...
Is routine genetic profiling coming closer?
... Kari Stefansson says genetic analysis can tells us how we ll respond to certain drug treatments Some people, for example, metabolise medicines more quickly than others, with implications for treatment regimes...
Kári Stefánsson Photos
