Anna Martling is a Professor of Surgery at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. She defended her thesis on rectal cancer in 2003 and became a board-certified surgeon in 2004 and an Associate Professor of Surgery in 2009. In 2014, Martling became a full Professor of Surgery. Since 2019, she has held the position of Dean at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Her research interests mainly focus on colorectal cancer and colorectal surgery. In 2013, Anna Martling received the Swedish Surgical Society´s Great Research Prize. In year 2021, she received the prize “Cancer Researcher of the Year” from the Swedish Cancer Society.