Founder Story

1928 Diagnostics was founded by four scientists and entrepreneurs within tech and healthcare to contribute in the combat against one of the greatest threats facing humanity - antibiotic resistance. Since the foundation of the company in 2014, we have commercialized Professor Erik Kristiansson's research at Chalmers University of technology, Sweden, into a DNA analytics platform for healthcare providers to effectively track and minimize spread of superbugs globally. Long-term friends Dr. Kristina Lagerstedt and Dr. Susanne Staaf, with medical and big-pharma backgrounds, have operated 1928 Diagnostics together from day one and built the team of software developers, bioinformaticians, microbiologists and quality engineers who together have built the 1928 platform. The tech and medtech serial entrepreneur, Olof Sköld, has guided the team based on his wide experiences and built a globally operating and recognized company with a clear vision. The strength of the 1928 Diagnostics team is our faceted competence, our continuous and strong relations within tech, healthcare and science and most of all - our common goal. We are dedicated and convinced that by collaboration and bridging innovative technology we can and will contribute to world health.

Why are we the best at solving this?

1928 Diagnostics is a growing team of bioinformaticians, software developers, microbiologists and molecular biologists dedicated to enable and optimize the use of the powerful whole genome sequencing technology to improve infection diagnostics worldwide. By developing a full service in close contact and collaboration with end users we build an easy-to-use and highly powerful bioinformatic analysis platform that fill present and future needs of infection control.

Kristina has a clinical research background from Sahlgrenska University hospital where she focused on diagnostic markers and personalized healthcare. She has an excellence in cell and molecular biology and genetics and has multiple experience in commercialisation activities of academic research.

Dr. Kristina Lagerstedt

CEO / FOUNDER

Susanne has extensive experience from product development at AstraZeneca and also conducted academic research at Karolinska Institute. She has an excellence in biochemistry, cell and molecular biology and molecular pharmacology and has long experience from leading and participating in interdisciplinary project teams as well as generating, reporting and filing data according to regulatory requirements.

Dr. Susanne Staaf

COO / FOUNDER

Göran holds a BSc in Business Administration and International Economics and has been controller and CFO in several industries. He has worked in growth companies and large companies and groups including Scania and Stena.

Göran Danielsson

CFO

Fredrik is an experienced team lead and software developer with expert domain knowledge in web development and cloud technologies.

Fredrik Dyrkell

CTO

With a solid background in Healthcare and Medtech stretching over 20 years, Johan has held senior management positions at several high growth companies before joining 1928 Diagnostics.

Johan Ehn

CCO

Silvia has a Master of Science with a major in molecular biology. She has worked in a Hospital Laboratory and has experience in setting up workflows as well as working in the routine laboratory.

Silvia Borghesi

Account Manager

Jonas Bäckman is working with media production and design at 1928. Jonas comes with a long-standing marketing background from several international tech companies.

Jonas Bäckman

Cross Media Producer

Dimitris is a bioinformatician with past experience in analyzing metagenomic and population genomic data.

Dimitrios Arnellos

BIOINFORMATICIAN

Oscar is a bioinformatician with a MSc in Biotechnology. He focuses on long read sequencing data analysis.

Oscar Aspelin

BIOINFORMATICIAN

Erik is a bioinformatician and molecular biologist with a past in producing and analyzing phenomics data.

Erik Lorén

BIOINFORMATICIAN

Karl Johan is an experienced software developer with expert domain knowledge in system architecture and automation.

Karl Johan Hultin

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Suvash is a software developer with interests in programming paradigms, machine learning, distributed systems and release engineering. He has previous experience in building scalable software systems for several startups.

Suvash Thapaliya

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Oskar is an experienced software developer with focus on automation and testing. He has previously worked with test automation for several international companies in different roles, including as test framework architect.

Oskar Andersson

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Serial entrepreneur with long-standing experience from Life Science, BI and Events industry. Jens has spent the last 25 years in LifeScience focusing on business development, strategy and building successful teams. He is currently COB at Health Integrator and serves on the BOD for Geras Solutions, Robotics Care, HelloThereGames and Mantaray.

Jens Mogensen

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

Olof has 15 years experience of building international companies in the Life Science and IT sectors. As a previous CEO of Denator he built sales force and distributional network in over 20 countries.

Olof Sköld

BOARD MEMBER / FOUNDER

Erik has excellence in mathematical statistics and is an expert in analysis of large-scale data from next generation DNA sequencing. He leads a research group at Chalmers University of Technology focusing on analysis of quantitative data with applications in molecular biology and medicine.

Prof. Erik Kristiansson

BOARD MEMBER / FOUNDER

Dr. Susanne Staaf

BOARD MEMBER / FOUNDER

Dr. Kristina Lagerstedt

BOARD MEMBER / FOUNDER

Gunnar is an authority in the field of antibiotic resistance. He was President of EUCAST, European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing, a position he has held for 11 years. In addition to that has been Head of the Clinical microbiology department at the county of Kronoberg for over 30 years.

Prof. Gunnar Kahlmeter

BOARD MEMBER

As a founder and CEO of Smart Eye, Martin has extensive experience in business development and leadership. He has an keen interest and expertise in various measurement technologies.

Martin Krantz

BOARD MEMBER

Christian is a Professor in Clinical Bacteriology at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden where he leads a research group focusing on antimicrobial resistance and the use of molecular biology as a diagnostic tool in clinical microbiology. Giske is also a consulting physician at the Swedish Center of Disease Control (Folkhälsomyndigheten, Solna, Sweden) and chairman of EUCAST (European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing) and NordicAST (Nordic Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing).

Prof. Christian Giske

Bonnie H. Anderson is Co-founder and Executive Chairwoman of Veracyte, a global diagnostics company that aims to transform outcomes for patients all over the world at every step of their journey in cancer and other diseases. Ms. Anderson’s career spans over 40 years in regulated diagnostics and life science markets. She co-founded Veracyte in 2008 and served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board until June 1, 2021, when she assumed the role of Executive Chairwoman.

Bonnie H. Anderson

Ingegerd is Chief Physician at the Clinical Bacteriology lab at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg and adjunct professor in Clinical Bacteriology at University of Gothenburg. Adlerberth has a deep knowledge in infectious bacteriology and antibiotic resistance and is an internationally recognized scientist (alt scientific leader) in the field of multidrug resistant bacteria (focusing on/with focus on ESBL).

Dr. Ingegerd Adlerberth

Rasmus is a Bioinformatics Research Scientist at Center for Genomic Medicine, Copenhagen University hospital. He is an expert in genomic analyses of bacteria and is a previous visiting researcher at Stanford University, Harvard Medical School, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and MIT. Marvig also has a Graduate Certificate in Business Administration at Copenhagen Business School.

Dr. Rasmus Lykke Marvig

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