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Anna Herland (Born 1979) is a Swedish neurologist. She is involved in developing in vitro neural models and hybrid bioelectrical systems. She is currently an Assistant Professor and Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Karolinska Institute.

Education
Anna Herland was born in 1979 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. She received a M.Sc. (Master of Science) degree in Biological Engineering in 2003 and a Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics in 2007 from Professor Olle Inganäs’ group, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. In 2009, she joined Associate Professor Ana Teixeira’s group for a postdoc in regenerative medicine at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Anna has currently 28 peer-reviewed publications, a h-index of 22 and 10 filed patents.

Research
Anna Herland joined the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering as a visiting research fellow in 2003, where she was part of a team, led by Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, that developed a method for modelling the 3D structure of the human blood-brain barrier inside a microfluidic device. This technology enabled researchers to study human neuro-vascular function and inflammation in vitro, mimicking the 3D orientation of cells in the brain and structures like the blood-brain-barrier intact. She was awarded the Wallenberg Academy Fellowship and KTH Tenure Track to start a group focused on In vitro neural models and Hybrid Bioelectrical Systems at the Department of Micro and Nanosystem at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. In addition, the group has an affiliation with the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Karolinska Institute. She further collaborated with researchers at the Wyss institute to develop multifunctional, real-time, sensing capabilities by integrating both multi-electrode arrays (MEAs) and electrodes for transepithelial electrical resistance (TEER) measurements into microfluidic organ-on-chips during their fabrication, resulting in real-time assessment of biological functions. She also developed a linked system with three coupled chips model influx across the blood–brain barrier (BBB), the brain parenchymal compartment and efflux across the BBB. She received a Swedish Research Council's grant in science and technology science in November, 2018.