Johan Jakobsson, PhD, is a professor of neuroscience at Lund University and the director of the Lund Stem Cell Center. He completed his PhD in Lund, Sweden, focusing on development of gene therapy strategies for the brain. After this, he undertook postdoctoral training at the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, where he focused on transposons or “jumping genes.” The long-term goal of his research is to understand how gene expression is controlled at the molecular level in the brain. He is interested in how the complex gene regulatory mechanism in the human brain has evolved and how these regulatory mechanisms influence brain disorders. His lab has significant expertise in the biology of transposons, bioinformatic approaches tailored to transposon analysis and a broad range of human stem cell-based model systems. Prof. Jakobsson works in several networks with a disease-oriented focus to facilitate the use of his research in the development of new therapies.