Agnes Wold

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Agnes Wold
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Born7 January 1955 (1955-01-07) (age 71)
Sweden
Scientific career
Fields Microbiology
Institutions University of Gothenburg

Agnes Wold (born 7 January 1955) is a professor of clinical bacteriology specializing in the normal flora of the body, at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. [1] She is a nationally known commentator on television, radio and in newspapers on issues related to infectious disease and women in science. [2]

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Education and research

Wold completed her medical degree in 1989 at the University of Gothenburg. [3] Wold specializes in the normal bacterial flora of the intestines, and their interaction with the immune system. Together with her group of scientists she focuses studies on how allergies and inflammatory bowel disease may be dependent on an altered gut-flora. [1] She has studied allergy development in children of farmers for many years and suggested their low rates of allergy may be explained by the hygiene hypothesis of allergy development. [4]

In January 2014, media called attention to Wold's development of a promising general vaccine against allergies, consisting of a bacterial protein working as an antigen stimulating the immune system. [5]

Advocacy for women in academia

In 1997, Wold, together with Christine Wennerås, published "Nepotism and Sexism in Peer-Review" in Nature [6] which examined discrimination in peer-reviews of postdoctoral research awards at the Swedish Medical Research Council. The report scientifically showed that women needed significantly better academic credentials than men to succeed in applications for services and research grants. Wold was previously chairperson of the Kvinnliga akademikers förening  [ sv ] (Association of Women Academics).

Media appearances

Wold is a regular contributor to Swedish newspapers, Twitter, television and radio shows especially regarding infectious disease, allergy and women in science. [7] [8] During the COVID-19 pandemic, she became a regular source of practical advice for the general public. [8]

Awards

Personal life

Wold is a daughter of statistician Herman Wold and mathematician Anna-Lisa Arrhenius-Wold, and a granddaughter of Svante Arrhenius, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [4] She has three children. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Agnes Wold ny professor vid Sahlgrenska akademin". University of Gothenburg. 15 February 2008. Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. 1 2 "Årets kvinna 2016, Agnes Wold: "Hybris har jag nog alltid haft"". Expressen (in Swedish). 8 March 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  3. ↑ Wold, Agnes E. (1989). Studies on bacterial adherence and local immunity in the gut. Göteborg. ISBN   978-91-7900-790-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. 1 2 3 Mot bacillskräck och gubbvälde, 1 February 2011
  5. ↑ Hon kan ha hittat vaccin mot allergi, 16 January 2014.
  6. ↑ Wennerås, Christine; Wold, Agnes (1997). "Nepotism and sexism in peer-review". Nature (journal). 387 (6631): 341–343. Bibcode:1997Natur.387..341W. doi:10.1038/387341a0. ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   9163412. S2CID   522864.
  7. ↑ "Skavlan – Agnes Wold om coronaviruset: Att hålla avstånd är viktigast" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 12 June 2020. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  8. 1 2 "Senaste nyheterna om Agnes Wold". Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  9. ↑ "Honorary Doctors 2006 Chalmers". chalmers.se. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  10. ↑ "Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhället i Göteborg (KVVS) | Ledamöter" (in Swedish). Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  11. ↑ "Agnes Wold appointed Professional Woman of the Year 2015". akademiliv.se. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  12. ↑ "2018 Agnes Wold". LEARNING LADDER PRIZE (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 6 November 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2020.


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