Practice changing clinical trials in NET

Joakim Crona is a resident in clinical oncology and associate professor in molecular oncology at Uppsala Academic Hospital, Sweden. He’s had a particular interest for neuroendocrine tumors since more than eight years. This included successfully defending his thesis covering genetics of neuroendocrine tumors, as well as working as a physician at the clinic of endocrine oncology. Joakim has just returned from a short term fellowship at the Pheochromocytoma/Paraganglioma Program, US National Institutes of Health. He plans a future career in the field of endocrine oncology that will unite clinical science with molecular biology, aiming at improving treatment of patients with these rare diseases.