Nils-Göran Larsson#
| Membership Number: | 2462 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?l=en&d=2839 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 - present Senior Consultant, Center for Inborn Errors of Metabolism, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
- 2002 - Professor in Mitochondrial Genetics, Karolinska Institute,Sweden
- 1997 - 2002 Associate professor, Karolinska institutet, Sweden
- 1994 - 1997 Physician Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University
- 199l - l994 Physician, Pediatrics, Gothenburg, Sweden
- 1992 - PhD Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
- 1988 - l990 Physician, Centrallasarettet, Molndal, Sweden (duty to get license to practice medicine)
- l984 - l987 Research fellow, Department of C1inical Chemistry, Gothenburg University, Sweden
- l984 Physician, pediatrics, Vanersborg, Sweden
Fields of Scholarship
- Genetics
- Mitochondrial biology
Honours and Awards
- 2001 Individual Grant for the Advancement of Research Leaders (INGVAR) awarded by the Swedish Strategic Foundation (SSP)
- 2002 Goran Gustafsson Prize in Medicine awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2004 Descartes prize from the European Union For outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievements Resulting from European Collaborative Research (MBAD project)
- Svenska Lakaresallskapets Jubileumspris 2006 (Prize from the Swedish Society of Medicine)
- 2003 - 2005 Associate member of the Nobel Committee for Medicine or Physiology
- 2006 - 2008 Member of the Nobel Committee for Medicine or Physiology
- 2004 Member ofthe Nobel Assembly at Karolinska institute
- 2006 Member of Class VII (Medical sciences) ofthe Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (Kungl Vetenskapsakademin)
- 2007 Member of Academia Europaea
