Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren#
| Membership Number: | 6571 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://staff.ki.se/people/hans-gustaf-ljunggren |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0908-7387 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - 2019 Part time visiting professor, CTI, Nova Southestern University, Ft Lauderdale, USA
- 2004 Visiting scientist, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- 2001 Visiting scientist, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- 2001 Full Professor, Founder and Director, Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Department of Medicine, KI
- 1994 - 2000 Associate Professor, Group leader, Dept. Microbiol. Tumor- & Cell Biology (MTC), KI
- 1992 - 1994 Post doc, Center for Cancer Research, M.I.T., Boston, MA, USA
- 1988 - 1990 Visiting Scientist, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- 1987 Visiting Scientist, Wallenberg Laboratory, Uppsala
- 1986 - 1990 Graduate Student, Department of Tumor Biology, KI
Fields of Scholarship
- Tumor immunity
- Infection immunity
- Innate immunity
- Vaccination
- Immunotherapy
- Adaptive immunity
Honours and Awards
- 1990 Post graduate fellowship, Cancer Research Institute (New York, NY, USA)
- 1991 Talented Young Scientist Award, “Associazione Mallattie Rare", Italy
- 1992 J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award
- 1993 Talented Young Scientist Award, Medical Research Council, Sweden
- 2010 Distinguished Professor Recognition, KI, Sweden
- 2011 Tobias Foundation Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden
- 2014 2014 Broegelmann Lecture, Univ Bergen, Norway
- 2015 2015 Falch Lecture, Univ Bergen, Norway
- 2018 2018 Michael Bennet Lecture, UT South Western Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
- 2019 Eijkman Lecture, Univ Utrecht, the Netherlands
- 2020 Medal for Zealous and Devoted Service for the Swedish Government
