Sten Grillner#
| Membership Number: | 886 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.neuro.ki.se/grillner/cv/stencv.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - Distinguished professor Karolinska institute
- 1987 - present Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institute, Professor and Director
- 1996 - 2006 Chairman Network program for Neuroscience/Psychiatry at KI
- 1993 - 2000 Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Chairman
- 1975 - 1986 Department of Physiology III, Karolinska Institute, Professor
- 1973 - 1975 eo Docent in Physiology, Medical Faculty Gothenburg
- 1988 - 2008 Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet, Member, Deputy chair 2004, chairman 2005
- 1987 - 1997 Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, adj. or full member
- 1995 - 1997 Nobel Committee, Chairman, (Deputy chair 1992-1994).
Fields of Scholarship
- Euroscience
- Cellular bases of motor behaviour
Honours and Awards
- 1990 Member of Academiae Europaeae
- 1993 Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Science. 2004- Chairman Section for Biology & member of Gov. Board of RSAS.
- 1997 Member of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 2004 Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2006 Honorary member of the Spanish Medical Academy
- 2006 Member Institute of Medicine of the National Academy, USA
- 2010 Member National Academy of Science, USA
- 1989 Associate of the Neurosciences Research Program (NRP) Neuroscience Institute, La Jolla
- 1988 Member of Rodin Remediation Academy , member of council (1997)
- 1977 Florman award, Royal Swedish Academy of Science
- 1983 Grass lecturer to the Society of Neuroscience, Boston
- 1990 Greater Nordic prize of Eric Fernstrom, Lund
- 1993 Bristol-Myers Squibb award for Distinguished achievements in Neuroscience Research, New York
- 2002 Reeve/Irvine Research Medal, New York
- 2003 Neuronal Plasticity Prize, Fondation Ipsen, Paris
- 2005 Ralph Gerard prize, Society for Neuroscience, Washington
- 2006 Ragnar Granit Prize, Finland
- 2007 Linnéan Zoology Award, Lund
- 2008 The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, US/Norway
