Per Svenningsson#
Membership Number: | 5929 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 2022 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Homepage(s): | http://ki.se/en/cns/per-svenningssons-research-group |
ORCID: | 0000-0001-6727-3802 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - part time Professor of Neurodegeneration, Dept of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King´s College London, England
- 2016 Senior Physician in Neurology, Dept. of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital
- 2012 Professor in Neurology, Dept. of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital/Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
- 2009 - 2015 Researcher (VR forskartjänst), Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
- 2005 - 2010 Medical Residency in Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital
- 2002 - 2006 Research assistent (VR forskarassistenttjänst), Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- 2001 - 2002 Assistant professor in Prof. Paul Greengard’s Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Rockefeller University, New York, USA
- 1999 - 2001 Postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Paul Greengard’s Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Rockefeller University, New York, USA
- 1996 - 1999 Medical Internship (Surgery, Internal Medicine and Psychiatry wards)/Research, “Forskar-AT”, Karolinska University Hospital
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurology
- Neurodegeneration
- Neuropharmacology
- Translational neuroscience
- Movement disorders
Honours and Awards
- 2006 Opening Plenary Lecture, XIV World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics
- 2007 NARSAD Young Investigator Award
- 2008 Werner Lowenthal´s Lecture, Richmond, USA
- 2008 Researcher position from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2011 - 2017 Fisher Center Grant Award
- 2014 ERC consolidator grant
- 2016 - 2026 Wallenberg Clinical Scholar
- 2017 Eurolife Distinguished Medal Lecture in Barcelona
- 2020 Arvid Carlsson Prize