Dr. Qiang Pan-Hammarström is a professor of clinical immunology and member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute. She is also a visiting professor at Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Centre and Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute in China. Dr. Qiang Pan-Hammarström was trained as a medical doctor and graduated from Sun Yat-Sen Medical University in 1993. During 1993 and 1994 she worked as a physician at the Guangzhou Respiratory Disease Research Institute. She obtained her PhD degree in molecular immunology at the Karolinska Institute in 1999 and carried out her postdoc training at Harvard Medical School in 2000. In 2001 she came back to the Karolinska Institute where she became an associate professor and group leader in 2004. She was a guest professor at Beijing University from 2005 to 2009, a visiting scientist in Harvard Medical School in 2012, a visiting professor at Rockefeller University from 2013-2015, a visiting scientist in the Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT from 2016 to 2017. She was appointed professor of clinical immunology at the Karolinska Institute in 2011 and was elected into the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in 2019. Dr. Qiang Pan-Hammarström has published 117 papers in areas of immunoglobulin gene diversifications, primary immunodeficiencies, genome instability and B cell malignancies.