Tamas Bartfai#
| Membership Number: | 1538 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1994 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://scripps.edu/mind |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor Emeritus, Stockholm University
- 2005 - present Chair, Molecular and Integrative Neurosciences Department, (Predecessor: Floyd Bloom) The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
- 2000 - 2015 Professor, Chair, and head of Harold Dorris Neurological Institute, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
- 2000 - 2009 Director, The Harold L. Dorris Neurological Research Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
- 1999 - 2002 Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, The BERZELIUS CHAIR, (Predecessor: Bengt Samuelsson), The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1998 - 2000 SeniorVP, Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland
- 1996 - 2000 Head of Central Nervous System Research, Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland
- 1992 - 1997 Chairman; Department of Neurochemistry and Neurotoxicology, Stockholm University
- 1986 Professor of Biochemistry (specialty Neurochemistry)
- 1975 Associate Professor of Biochemistry (Docent), Stockholm University, Sweden
Fields of Scholarship
- Peptide neurobiology and muscarinic acetylcholine receptors
- Molecular and biochemical basis of cognition and neuroinflammation
Honours and Awards
- 1966 Eötvös Prize in Chemistry
- 1977 Liljevalchs Jr. Stipendium
- 1978 Ekströms Stipendium
- 1984 Astra Lecturer 1984, Göteborg
- 1985 Senior Fullbright Fellow
- 1985 Fellow of the Neurosciences Institute, New York
- 1985 The Svedbergs Prize of 1985 (Awarded to a Biochemist each year by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Biochemical Society of Sweden, jointly)
- 1992 Hilda och Alfred Erikssons Prize of 1992 (shared with Håkan Persson) The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2000 Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar Award
- 2003 NARSAD Distinguished Senior Researcher Award
