Carl-Henrik Heldin#
| Membership Number: | 1965 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1999 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N96-1274 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1992 Professor in Molecular Cell Biology at the Medical Faculty of Uppsala University
- 1986 - 2017 Director, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (Uppsala Branch)
- 1984 - 1985 Senior Scientist of the Swedish Cancer Society
- 1981 - 1983 Cancer Research Scholarship from the Swedish Cancer Society
- 1981 Lecturer at Dept of Medical and Physiological Chemistry
- 1980 Research Assistant at Dept of Medical and Physiological Chemistry
- 1975 - 1980 Graduate student scholarship at Dept of Medical and Physiological Chemistry combined with a part time teaching position
- 1972 - 1974 Part time teaching positions at Depts. of Anatomy, Medical and Physiological Chemistry, and Physiology
Fields of Scholarship
- PDGF receptor
- Exploring the possible clinical utility of signal transduction antagonists
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1991 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Med. Class
- 1995 Member of the Royal Scientific Society (Uppsala)
- 1999 Member of the Academia Europea
- 2002 Member of the Japanese Association for Cancer Research
- 2006 Member of the Finnish Scientific Society.
- 2006 Member of the Scan Balt Academy
- 2007 Member of the Hellenic Biochemical Society
- 2009 Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2009 Member of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences
- 2009 Doctor honoris causa University of Patras, Greece
- 2010 Doctor honoris causa University of Helsinki, Finland
- 2011 Doctor honoris causa University of Turku, Finland
- 2011 Doctor honoris causa University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 1984 The The Svedberg Prize, the Swedish Biochemical Society
- 1984 King Oscar II:s Prize, Univ. of Uppsala (shared with K. Söderhäll)
- 1984 The Alvarenga Prize, Swedish Medical Society (shared with B. Westermark)
- 1984 The Thureus Prize, Royal Society of Sciences (Uppsala)
- 1986 Anders Jahre's Medical Prize for Younger Scientists, Univ. of Oslo (with B. Gustafsson)
- 1989 Prix Antoine Lacassagne, French Nat. Org. against Cancer (shared with D. Gospodarowicz)
- 1989 K. Fernström's Medical Prize for Young Swedish Scientists, Med. Faculty of Uppsala Univ
- 1990 The Jubilee Prize, Swedish Medical Society (shared with B. Westermark)
- 1992 The EMBO Medal, EMBO Council
- 1993 K. Fernström's Large Medical Prize for Nordic Scientists, Lund Univ. (with B. Westermark)
- 1999 Meyenburg Prize, German Cancer Center, Heidelberg
- 2002 Pezcoller-AACR Award, Pezcoller Foundation and American Ass. for Cancer Research
- 2003 Rudbeck Award, Medical Society in Uppsala
- 2006 K.-J. Öbrink Lecture, Uppsala Univ
- 2011 The Rudbeck Medal, Uppsala Univ
- 2011 The Berzelius Medal, Swedish Medical Society
- 2012 Honorary Medal of the Signal Transduction Society
