Hugo Zeberg is a Swedish physician and academic. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Karolinska Institutet. Zeberg is most known for his research on evolutionary genetics, focusing on gene flow from Neandertals and Denisovans into modern humans. He has also conducted research studies on genetic variability and its functional impact, especially on membrane-bound proteins like receptors and ion channels. In 2020, he identified Neanderthal genes that can influence how ill different people become after contracting the COVID-19 virus while working with Svante Pääbo. He is the recipient of the 2022 Sven and Ebba-Christina Hagberg Prize. Since 2014, Zeberg has been serving as the president of the Swedish Society for Anatomy and a consulting editor for anatomy textbooks and atlases at Georg Thieme Verlag. Source: Wikipedia (en)