Karl Tryggvason#

• 2012 - present Tanoto Professor in Diabetes Research, Cardiovascular and Metabolism Disorders Program, Duke-NUS, Singapore
• 1994 - present Professor of Medical Chemistry, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
• 1989 - 1994 Research Professor, The Finnish Cancer Institute (location University of Oulu)
• 1987 - 1995 Professor of Biochemistry, Chairman, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Oulu
• 1986 - 1989 Senior Investigator, Academy of Finland
• 1983 - 1984 Visiting Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Clinical Pathology, (invited), Departments of Biochemistry and Pathology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Rutgers Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
• 1979 - 1980 Assistant of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital of Oulu (resident program)
• 1978 - 1979 Visiting Associate, Laboratory of Developmental Biology and Anomalies, National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
• 1974 - 1978, 1979 Assistant of Medical Biochemistry, Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Oulu
• 1974 - 1975 Part-time Teacher and Acting Assistant of Medical Biochemistry, Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Oulu

• Clinical chemistry (clinical pathology)
• Biochemistry
• Structure and biology of basement membranes

• 2005 Member of the Academia Europaea
• 2005 Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences
• 2002 The Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
• 2000 The Homer W. Smither Award from the American Society of Nephrology
• 1995 The Kaitera Prize, Finland
• Member of the Nobel Committee for physiology and medicine

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