Karl Tryggvason#
Membership Number: | 2165 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 2002 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Homepage(s): | http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=17271&l=en https://www.duke-nus.edu.sg/cvmd/content/karl-tryggvason |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Tanoto Professor in Diabetes Research, Cardiovascular and Metabolism Disorders Program, Duke-NUS, Singapore
- 1994 - present Professor of Medical Chemistry, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
- 1989 - 1994 Research Professor, The Finnish Cancer Institute (location University of Oulu)
- 1987 - 1995 Professor of Biochemistry, Chairman, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Oulu
- 1986 - 1989 Senior Investigator, Academy of Finland
- 1983 - 1984 Visiting Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Clinical Pathology, (invited), Departments of Biochemistry and Pathology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Rutgers Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
- 1979 - 1980 Assistant of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital of Oulu (resident program)
- 1978 - 1979 Visiting Associate, Laboratory of Developmental Biology and Anomalies, National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- 1974 - 1978, 1979 Assistant of Medical Biochemistry, Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Oulu
- 1974 - 1975 Part-time Teacher and Acting Assistant of Medical Biochemistry, Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Oulu
Fields of Scholarship
- Clinical chemistry (clinical pathology)
- Biochemistry
- Structure and biology of basement membranes
Honours and Awards
- 2005 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2005 Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences
- 2002 The Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 2000 The Homer W. Smither Award from the American Society of Nephrology
- 1995 The Kaitera Prize, Finland
- Member of the Nobel Committee for physiology and medicine