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JAN-ERIC LITTON is Professor of Biomedical Computing Technology, Director of Informatics, Karolinska Institutet Biobank and Head of IT and Computing, at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Karolinska Institutet (KI) was founded in 1810 and is one of Europe’s largest and most acknowledged medical universities. Jan-Eric Litton is renowned for his expertise in informatics and leadership in large-scale projects. He is a member of the Core group responsible for the Swedish LifeGene initiative, a prospective genetically informed cohort based biobank. The KI Biobank constitutes a national, non-commercial resource for collecting, handling, storing and documentation of human biological material, aiming to promote scientific excellence within molecular epidemiological research. He is also heading the development of e-epidemiology by using Internet, cell-phones, digital paper and digital TV for collecting epidemiology data. Jan-Eric Litton has also made major contributions to the current knowledge in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and was one of the first researchers to show receptor binding with PET technique.