B.-Jacobsson

Bo Jacobsson

Professor Bo Jacobsson is head of Perinatal Research Laboratory at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden and Senior researcher at Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway. Clinical scientist with specialty in Obstetrics and Maternal/Fetal Medicine. Leading expert on mechanisms and epidemiology of preterm delivery. He is also a member of the Board of Directors at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Prof. Jacobsson is chair of FIGO Working Group on Preterm Delivery – International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics and he is also chair of EAPM Special Interest Group of preterm Birth – European Association of Perinatal Medicine

Prof. Jacobsson has published more than 250 per reviewed papers between 2002-2019. Among other journals he has published in Nature, Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Genetics, PLOS Medicine and JAMA. He has been invited to lecture to more than 140 international scientific conferences.