Career
He is the director of the Krefting Research Centre at the University of Gothenburg. Lötvall led the research that discovered Ribonucleic acid in exosomes, showing a new communication route between cells by the transfer of Ribonucleic acid via exosomes. Lötvall is also co-editor-in-chief of Respiratory Research.
He is also the first president of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (2012-2016) and chaired the first society meeting in Gothenburg, in April 2012.
Lötvall started studying medicine at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm in 1981, but moved to Gothenburg in 1985 and graduated from the Medical School of the University of Gothenburg in 1987. He became interested in asthma research in the mid-1980s.
He has done clinical training in both pharmacology and allergology, and became a specialist in each of these in 1997 and 1999 respectively. He became associate professor (docent) at the University of Gothenburg in 1993 and full professor of clinical allergology in 2002.
