LARSSON Group

Nils-Göran Larsson
External Member
Nationality
Swedish
Scientific Career
01/2019-present | Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany, External Member |
01/2016-present | Professor and Senior Consultant, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden |
01/2008-12/2018 | Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany, Director (absence of leave in 2016, 20% activity since 2017) |
07/2002-12/2015 | Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden, Professor in Mitochondrial Genetics, Senior Consultant, Center for Inborn Errors of Metabolism (2008-2015, 20% activity) |
07/2001-06/2002 | Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Associate Professor |
02/1997-06/2001 | Department of Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, Associate Professor |
03/1994-02/1997 | Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, HHMI Physician Postdoctoral fellow |
Education
March 07, 1994 | Specialist of Pediatrics |
1992 | Medicine doktorsexamen (Ph.D.), Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden |
01/1991-03/1994 | Barnkliniken, Göteborg, Sweden, Physician, Specialist in Pediatrics |
06/1990-12/1990 | Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden, Physician, Clinical Chemistry |
June 15, 1990 | Läkarlegitimation (License to practice medicine in Sweden) |
07/1988-05/1990 | Central Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden, Physician |
11/1987-06/1988 | Barnkliniken, Göteborg, Sweden, Physician, Pediatrics |
08/1987-10/1987 | Barnkliniken, Vänersborg, Sweden, Physician, Pediatrics |
02/1987-07/1987 | Institutionen för medicinsk genetik, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Research fellow, Genetics |
12/1984-01/1987 | Centrallaboratoriet, Sahlgrenska University, Göteborg, Sweden, Physician, Clinical Chemistry |
07/1984-11/1984 | Barnkliniken, Vänersborg, Sweden, Physician, Pediatrics |
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 |
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 |