Rate My Professor Tove Fall

Tove Fall is a Professor of Molecular Epidemiology at Uppsala University in the Department of Medical Sciences. She holds a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) awarded in 2005 and earned her PhD in 2009 with a thesis on diabetes in dogs. Following her doctorate, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in medical and genetic epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet before returning to Uppsala University, where she was appointed Associate Professor in Epidemiology in 2013 and established her independent research group in 2016.

Professor Fall leads a research group that applies advanced bioinformatics and causal inference methods, including Mendelian randomization, to large-scale population studies involving proteomics, metabolomics, and national health registers. Her work focuses on identifying underlying causes and risk factors for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, with additional investigations into the role of the gut and oral microbiota in vascular health. Notable contributions include research on early-life animal exposure and childhood asthma that informed national pediatric guidelines, as well as studies during the COVID-19 pandemic through the Covid Symptom Study Sweden and CRUSH-Covid projects. She has received major grants as principal investigator, including an ERC Starting Grant in 2018, and numerous awards such as the Oscar Prize (2015), Göran Gustafsson Prize for Young Researchers (2016), Thureus Prize (2021), Leif C. Groop Award (2023), and the Göran Gustafsson Prize in Medicine (2025). Her long-term objectives include building a leading molecular epidemiology environment at Uppsala University and mentoring the next generation of researchers.