Christer Halldin#
Membership Number: | 3432 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2012 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Homepage(s): | http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=2309&l=en |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003- Director of the Karolinska Institutet PET Centre
- 2000- Professor of Medicinal Radiochemistry, Karolinska Institutet
- 1995-2000 Högskolelektor of Medicinal Radiochemistry, Karolinska Institutet
- 1989-1995 Associate professor (docent) of Medicinal Radiochemistry, Karolinska Institutet
- 1985-1989 Assistant professor of Medicinal Radiochemistry, Karolinska Institutet
- 1984-1985 Postdoctoral scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, Radiochemistry
Fields of Scholarship
- Positron emission tomography (PET)
- PET radiochemistry
- Molecular imaging
- Molecular imaging biomarkers
- Radioligand development
- Neuroreceptor studies
- Drug development studies
Honours and Awards
- 1984 Bengt Lundqvist’s Memorial
- 1985 Sederholms Stipendium
- 1992 Marie Curie Award
- 1998 Radioactivity “100 Years”
- 1999 Best scientific paper “Springer Verlag 1998”
- 2001 Marie Curie Award
- 2005 Marie Curie Award
- 2009 Marie Curie Award
- 2011 Heikki Wendelin Award
- Chairman of the Committee for Drug Development, European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), since 2005
- KI PI for a new Innovative Medicine Initiative (IMI), 2009-2014, NEWMEDS on schizophrenia and depression.
- Swedish coordinator and Vice Chair for three COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action B3 (1993-1998), B12 (2000-2005) and TD1007 (2011-2115)
- Swedish PI for INMIND (Imaging of Neuroinflammation in Neurodegenerative Diseases) (2012-2016)
- Swedish PI for DIMI (Diagnostics in Molecular Imaging) (2005-2010)
- Swedish PI for a Human Frontier Science Program Organization Grant (2000-2004)
- PI for several other international and domestic grants and a large number of industrial research contracts
- Swedish PI for INMIND (Imaging of Neuroinflammation in Neurodegenerative Diseases) (2012-2016)