Mouna Esmaeilzadeh was born in Tehran and moved to Stockholm, Sweden with her family at the age of three. Her older brother is serial entrepreneur, business executive and chemistry professor Saeid Esmaeilzadeh. She is married to Danish gym entrepreneur Rasmus Ingerslev, best known as one of the founders of the international Barry's Bootcamp chain. Esmaeilzadeh began her academic career studying philosophy at Stockholm University and received her master's degree at University of Oslo. She went on to study medicine at Karolinska Institutet receiving her medical license in 2005 and her Ph.D. in neuroscience in 2011 specializing in PET-imaging and the dopamine system in the brain. Her thesis was written at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet and had the title of "Towards a novel treatment of Huntington's Disease". Esmaeilzadeh began her entrepreneurial carrier in 2009, founding SciLife Clinic, which she exited in December 2016.
Entrepreneurship
Esmaeilzadeh founded SciLife Clinic in 2009, an internationally renowned longevity clinic with a pioneering and unique concept using the latest science and technology to prevent diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and cancer. She has gained international acknowledgement for being the first physician integrating genetic analyses as part of advanced health check-ups on her patients, including world famous artists, athletes and business leaders. Esmaeilzadeh has been the doctor and personal advisor to the Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang and Swedish business icon Anders Wall. At the clinic, she had an experienced scientific advisory board consisting of leading physicians and professors including Professor :sv:Alf A. Lindberg|Alf A. Lindberg, former secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, international expert in epigenetics Dr. Lars Olov Bygren as well as immunotechnology Professor and former Deputy Vice Chancellor of Lund University Carl Borrebaeck.
Thought leadership
Esmaeilzadeh has been an authority within the field of preventive healthcare, specializing in longevity and promoting a paradigm shift from the current reactive system to a proactive focus, from treating diseases to start preventing them . She has during the last decade been pushing for creating a paradigm shift within healthcare, promoting digitalization and the use of modern technology such as artificial intelligence and genetics for patients, to prevent diseases and increase healthy years of life. Her work has been covered in international media and she has been cited in medical publications on the subject
Esmaeilzadeh is an appreciated inspirational public speaker. She is also a recurring guest at Swedish national TV4 Nyhetsmorgon speaking about popular science, where she covers topics within her field of expertise such as longevity, artificial intelligence, future of healthcare, genetics and epigenetics, as well as other hot scientific topics.
Honors and achievements
Esmaeilzadeh was named “Entrepreneur of the Month” in October 2013 by the entrepreneurial network Founders Alliance with the following motivation: "To live a long and healthy life is probably everyone's dream. Mouna Esmaeilzadeh, founder of SciLife Clinic, is strongly convinced that this is possible. With her background as a physician and a neuroscientist, she started SciLife Clinic in Stockholm in 2009". In 2014, she was interviewed about her life in the podcast series "Framgångsresor", a collaboration between SIME, northern Europes largest digital conference and airline Norwegian Air Shuttle. During her academia years, she also held philosophy courses for scientists and physicians at Karolinska Institutet, teaching seminars in medical ethics, logic and epistemology.
Academic publications
Esmaeilzadeh has co-authored eight different medical publications covering the area of neuroscience:
