Birgitta Henriques-Normark

Birgitta Henriques-Normark (born 22 June 1958) is a Swedish physician and researcher, focusing on the field of host-bacteria interactions and pneumococcal infections. She is a professor of Clinical Microbiology at the Karolinska Institute and is the head physician at the Karolinska University Hospital. She is a member of a number of academies including the European Academy of Microbiology, the American Academy of Microbiology, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, of which she was elected president in 2022.

Career As a physician, Henriques-Normark worked at the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, where she became the department head. In 2008, Henriques-Normark became a professor in the field of medical microbial pathogenesis, and then in 2011, was appointed to a joint position as a professor of Clinical Microbiology at the Karolinska Institute and Head Physician at the Karolinska University Hospital, in the department of Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology.

She is an elected member or fellow of a number of academic societies: in 2013, she was elected fellow of the European Academy of Microbiology, and in 2019 both as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation and as a member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, which awards the Nobel Prize. In 2022, she was elected president of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences.