Born on August 1965 in Sweden, Dr. Ola Stig Winqvist did his M.D and Ph.D from the University of Uppsala in 1994. He worked as a docent in experimental medicine in 1999 and got the license to practice medicine in the same year. He became the consultant of clinical immunology in 2008. For three years, he worked on a Post-Doc position in the Scripps Research Institute, California. He also worked on a Tenure Track position at the Karolinska Institute for six years and as a cancer researcher in the Swedish Cancerfoundation for four years. He did his research internship from the University Hospital of Uppsala. He served at Wallenberg as a senior scientist for three years. He supervised 16 post graduate students. He received Wassers reward from Uppsala University for writing best thesis in 1994, and Lions Young investigator award in 2002. He is the member of the Endocrine Society, American Association of Immunologist and the Swedish Society of Medicine. He was appointed as the associate editor of The Open Autoimmunity Journal in 2008. He also shouldered the committee duties as the Chairman of the National Network of Junior Scientists in 2005-2006, as the Chairman of the National Cellular Immunology guideline group in 2008, as the Director of FOCIS excellence center at Karolinska in 2008, and as the Cofounder and vice chairman of the Karolinska Inflammatory Immunology Network (KiiM) from 2005. He contributed in 57 research articles (out of them 6 are in process), 10 are review articles and 2 patents.