Göran K. Hansson#
| Membership Number: | 2459 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | https://ki.se/en/people/goran-hansson |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4148-5190 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015-2021 Secretary General, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2010- Distinguished Professor, Karolinska Institutet
- 2010-2022 Vice Chairman of the Nobel Foundation
- 2009-2014 Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine
- 2008 Visiting Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston
- 1995- Professor, Cardiovascular Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- 1994-1995 Professor, Cell biology, Univ. Gothenburg
- 1989-1994 Senior scientist experimental medicine, Univ. Gothenburg
- 1983-1988 Resident, medicine, Sahlgrenska Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
- 1981-1983 Postdoctoral fellow, Univ. Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- 1980 PhD, Histology/cell biology, Univ. Gothenburg
- 1977 MD, Univ. Gothenburg, Sweden
Fields of Scholarship
- Autoimmunity
- Cardiovascular medicine
- Molecular medicine
- Inflammation
- Cardiology
- Atherosclerosis
Honours and Awards
- Erik K. Fernström Prize for Medical Research, 1992
- Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, elected 1997
- Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, 1998-, chair 2004-2006
- Lars Werkö Prize for Heart Research, 1998
- Russell Ross Memorial Lecture, International Atherosclerosis Society, 2000
- Science Committee of Louis-Jeantet Foundation, member 2000-2008, chair 2009-
- Nikkilä Lecture, Scandinavian Society for Atherosclerosis Research, 2002
- Eijkman Medal, Utrecht University 2003
- Anitschkow Prize, European Atherosclerosis Society 2007
- George Lyman Duff Memorial Lecture, American Heart Association 2007
- Elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2007
- Elected to Academia Europæa 2007
- William Harvey Lecture and Medal, European Society of Cardiology, Munich 2008
- Outstanding Achievement Award, Intl Atherosclerosis Society, Boston 2009
- Distinguished Service Award, American Heart Association, Orlando 2009
- Federa Prize, Federation of Biomedical Scientific Societies, Leiden, The Netherlands 2011
- Middlesex Memorial Lecture, University College London 2012
- Honorary Professor, Shandong University, China 2014
- Anthony Cerami Prize in Translational Medicine, Feinstein Institute, New York 2014
- Doctor of Medicine honoris causa, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio 2015
- His Majesty The King's Medal, 2017
- Gold Medal of the European Society of Cardiology, 2022
- Von Höpken Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2023
- Grand Silver medal of Karolinska Institutet, 2023
- Honorary Member, American Society of Clinical Investigation, 2024
