Erling Norrby - Curriculum vitae#
Nationality: Swedish
Family status: Married. Three children, born 1965, 1966, 1968
Examinations
- MD, December 14, 1963, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- Dissertation (equivalent to PhD): May 19, 1964, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- Docent of Medicine, September 24, 1964 at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Positions
- 1959-1966 Temporary lecturer positions in the Department of Virus Research at Karolinska Institutet
- 1966-1972 Career award from the Swedish Cancer Society
- 1972-1997 Professor of Virology, Karolinska Institutet
- 1972-1990 Chairman of the Department of Virology, Karolinska Institutet
- 1990-1996 Dean of the Medical Faculty of Karolinska Institutet
- 1997-2003 Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Professor
Various appointments
- 1976-1989 State Controller of Viral Vaccines in Sweden
- 1975-1980 Member of the Nobel Committee, Karolinska Institutet (Vice Chairman 1979-1980)
- 1973-1974,
- 1980-1990,
- 1991-1993 Adjunct member of the Nobel Committee, Karolinska Institutet
- 1990 Chairman of the Nobel Assembly
- 1981-1987 Vice chairman (1981-1984) and chairman (1984-1987) of the Division of Virology of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (member of the Board of IUMS during these years)
- 1975-1995 Adviser to the World Health Organization
- 1970-1982 Member of the Executive Committee for Taxonomy of Viruses
- 1969-1985 Member of the Granting Committee of the Swedish Cancer Society, vice chairman 1977-1980
- 1979-1985 Chairman, Information Committee, Swedish Cancer Society
- 1983-1984 Chairman of the Board for the Section of Medical Microbiology of the Swedish Society of Medical Sciences
- 1979-1983 Chairman of the Granting Committee of the National Society for Handicapped Individuals
- 1978-1987 Member of the Grants Committee for Prenatal Research
- 1981-1985 Member of the Grants Committee of the Swedish Society of Medical Sciences
- 1983-1988 Member of the Grants Committee for Microbiology of the Swedish Medical Research Council
- 1980-1985 Member of the Board of King Gustav V Jubilee Fund
- 1983-1993 Member of the Board of the National Bacteriological Laboratory
- 1987-1990 Member of the Board of KabiVitrum Co
- 1987-1990 Member of the Board of KabiGen
- 1990-1994 Member of the Board of Kabi Pharmacia
- 1992-1995 Member of the Board of Pharmacia Biotech Co
- 1987-1991 Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Group of KabiGen
- 1980-1994 Member (1980-83) and chairman (1987-1994) of the Swedish Hybrid-DNA Delegation
- 1981-1988 Member of the Advisory Committee on Vaccines of the National Health Board
- 1974-1997 Member of the Society for General Virology, UK
- 1974-1997 Member of the American Society for Microbiology, USA
- 1987-1993 Member of the American Society of Virology
- 1976-1987 Editor of Archives of Virology
- 1978-1986 Editor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
- 1980-1997 Member of the Advisory Board for J Virol, J Gen Virol, J Med Virol, Scand J Immunol, Vaccines and Advanced Virus Research
- 1984-1997 Visiting Adjunct Professor at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- 1990-2009 Member of the Scientific Council of the Paul Ehrlich Foundation
- 1997- Visiting Scholar at The Neuroscience Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- 1997-2003 Chairman of the Board of the Sven Hedin Foundation
- 1997-2003 Member of the Board of the Nobel Foundation
- 1998-2004 Member of the Board of Karlstad University
- 1999-2003 Chairman of the Rolf Schock Foundation
- 2000-2003 Chairman of the Science Education Committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2001- Member of the Board of the Tobias Foundation
- 2003-2006 Member of the Board of Advisors of the Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, MD, USA
- 2003- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, MD, USA
- 2003- Member of the Prize Committee of the Aristeio Bodossaki Foundation
- 2003-2009 Member of the Board of the Postkod Foundation
- 2005- Trustee of the Boards of the J. Craig Venter Institute and Foundation (since 2006 one Institute). Since 2007 Vice Chairman
- 2006-2008 Scientific Advisor to AlphaHelix Molecular Diagnostics AB, Uppsala, Sweden
- 2006- Founding father and Chairman of the Science Board of the Institute Para Limes, Warnsveld, The Netherlands
- 2007- Trustee of the Gustaf's V 80 Years Foundation
- 2010- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Synthetic Genomics Vaccine, Inc.
- 2010- Member of the Board of the Swedish Post Code Association
Special appointment
- 2001- Lord Chamberlain in Waiting at the Royal Swedish Court
Selected recent international advisor commitments
- 2000 Advisor to the Science Council of Japan, Tokyo
- 2000 Member, representing IAP, of the ICSU coordinated stake holder group for Science and Technology at PrepCom II, New York and PrepCom IV, Bali for WSSD
- 2002 External Reviewer of the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, Tokyo