Dr Lovisa Holmberg Schiavone

Dr Lovisa Holmberg Schiavone is a Director of Protein Science, Discovery Sciences, AstraZeneca R&D Gothenburg, Sweden. She received her PhD in biochemistry from Stockholm University followed by a postdoc at the University of California Santa Cruz and Assistant Professor at Södertörn University in Stockholm. Her academic career focused on ribosomes and translation. In 2005 she joined the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. During her time at the SGC she was responsible for one of the target teams solving structures of human proteins of medical relevance. Since joining AstraZeneca in 2007 Dr Holmberg Schiavone has been leading different teams responsible for supplying proteins for small molecule projects and other drug modalities. Dr Holmberg Schiavone´s interests span discovering new targets and prosecuting novel target classes in drug discovery. She is also interested in exploring machine learning for protein expression yield prediction.