Carina Mallard earned her BSc at Lund University in Sweden in 1987. She defended her PhD thesis in 1995 at the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. In 1996 she was awarded a SIDS Postdoctoral Fellowship (1996–1998) at Melbourne University, Australia. Following her postdoc, she was awarded a Research Fellowship from the Swedish Research Council (1999–2002), became Senior Lecturer in Physiology at the University of Gothenburg in 2002 and appointed as Professor in 2006. The work in Dr. Mallard’s lab focuses on experimental studies of fetal and neonatal brain damage and therapeutic targets to prevent or treat the injuries. The work includes identifying inflammatory mediators in the blood and brain that are injurious following intrauterine infection or inflammation in the newborn, with an emphasis on innate immunity, such as toll-like receptors.