Biography Nils-Göran Larsson

Larsson Group

Scientific Career

01/2019 - present                       External Member
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
01/2016 - present Professor and Senior Consultant
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
01/2008 - 12/2018 Director
(absence of leave in 2016, 20% activity since 2017)
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
07/2002 - 12/2015 Professor in Mitochondrial Genetics & Senior Consultant
Center for Inborn Errors of Metabolism (2008-2015, 20% activity)
Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
07/2001 - 06/2002 Associate Professor
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
02/1997 - 06/2001 Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
03/1994 - 02/1997 HHMI Physician Postdoctoral fellow
Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

Education

March 07, 1994 Specialist of Pediatrics
1992 Medicine doktorsexamen (Ph.D.)
Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
01/1991 - 03/1994 Physician, Specialist in Pediatrics
Barnkliniken, Göteborg, Sweden
06/1990 - 12/1990 Physician, Clinical Chemistry
Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden
June 15, 1990 Läkarlegitimation  (License to practice medicine in Sweden)
07/1988 - 05/1990 Physician
Central Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden
11/1987 - 06/1988 Physician, Pediatrics
Barnkliniken, Göteborg, Sweden
08/1987 - 10/1987 Physician, Pediatrics
Barnkliniken, Vänersborg, Sweden
02/1987 - 07/1987 Research fellow, Genetics
Institutionen för medicinsk genetik, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
12/1984 - 01/1987 Physician, Clinical Chemistry
Centrallaboratoriet, Sahlgrenska University, Göteborg, Sweden
07/1984 - 11/1984 Physician, Pediatrics
Barnkliniken, Vänersborg, Sweden
1984 Läkarexamen (M.D.)
Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden

Prizes / 
Awards

2008                                              Hilda and Alfred Erikssons Prize  
2006 Jubilee Prize from the Swedish Medical Society (Svenska Läkaresällskapets Jubileumspris)
2004 Descartes prize from the European Union for outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievements Resulting from European Collaborative Research (MBAD project)
2002 Göran Gustafsson Prize in Medicine awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Third-party
funding

2017 - 2021 European Research Council (ERC) H2020, Advanced Grant
mtDNA-CURE: Treating mitochondrial disease caused by pathogenic mtDNA mutations
2017 - 2020  DFG
SFB 1218: Mitochondrial regulation of cellular function
2013 - 2017 DFG
CECAD: EXC 229 - to support collaborative research
2001 Individual Grant for the Advancement of Research Leaders (INGVAR)
awarded by the Swedish Strategic Foundation (SSF)

Memberships

2016 - present       Member of the Nobel Committee for Medicine or Physiology      
2012 - present   Member of EMBO - Heidelberg, Germany
2006 - present Member of Class VII (Medical sciences) of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences  (Kungl Vetenskapsakademin)
2004 - present Member of Academia Europaea
2004 - present Member of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute
2006 - 2008 Member of the Nobel Committee for Medicine or Physiology
2003 - 2005 Associate member of the Nobel Committee for Medicine or Physiology
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