Petar Mitev

I graduated with a BSc in Biochemistry from Imperial College London in 2016. As part of my degree, I also got the opportunity to spend a year working at the Institute of Cancer Research (also in London), following which I moved to the US, where I obtained an MSc in Pharmacology from Duke University. In 2022 I came to Sweden to pursue a Ph.D. in Cancer Biology at the Karolinska Institute, joining a project that focuses on the characterization of the tumor suppressors SAMD9 and SAMD9L, genes whose mutants have been associated with severe syndromes such as bone marrow failure, immunodeficiency, myelodysplasia, and acute myeloid leukemia. In my spare time I enjoy reading non-fiction, especially western philosophy, I’m a big NBA and an even bigger NFL fan, and I am still considering moonlighting as a rockstar, although I worry that the fame would ruin me, and also my guitar teacher once told me that I have “no sense of rhythm whatsoever”.