Karolinska Institutet

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Karolinska Institutet (often translated from Swedish into English as the Karolinska Institute, and in older texts often as the Royal Caroline Institute) is a medical university in Stockholm, founded in 1810.

It is the largest single institution of higher education in medicine in the world. A committee of the institute appoints the laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Karolinska University Hospital is associated with the university as a teaching hospital. It is one of Sweden's largest centres for training and research, accounting for 30 percent of the medical training and 40 percent of the medical academic research conducted nationwide. While most of the medical programs are taught in Swedish, the bulk of the PhD projects are conducted in English.

The institute is a member of the League of European Research Universities.

History

The Karolinska Institute was founded in the period between 1810 and 1811 as a training center for army surgeons. The original name was at first 'Mediko-kirurgiska Institutet'. In 1817 the prefix 'Karolinska', as a reference to the Swedish king Karl XIII, was added, giving it the name 'Karolinska Mediko-kirurgiska Institutet'. In 1822 this name was changed to 'Karolinska Institutet'.

Notable alumni or faculty

Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848; professor at KI), invented modern chemical notation and is considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry; discoverer of the elements silicon, selenium, thorium, and cerium.
Carl Gustaf Mosander (1792-1858; student of Berzelius, his successor 1836), chemist, discoverer of the elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium.
Gustaf Retzius (1842-1919), anatomist (Progessor 1877-1890)
Karl Oskar Medin (1847-1928), paediatrician, famous for his study of poliomyelitis (Professor 1883-1914)
Hugo Theorell (1903-1982), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1955
Torsten Wiesel (1924-), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1981
Pehr Edman (1916-1977), chemist (Med. dr 1946). Cf. Edman degradation
Lars Leksell (1907-1986), physician, inventor of radiosurgery and the Gamma Knife.
Sune Bergström (1916-2004), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 (with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John Robert Vane).
Bengt I. Samuelsson (b. 1934), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 (with Sune Bergström and John Robert Vane).
Ragnar Granit (1900-1991), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1967.
Göran Liljestrand (1886-1968), physiologist and pharmacologist.
Ulf von Euler (1905-1983), physiologist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1970.
Rebecka Liljeberg (b. 1981), actress (Fucking Åmål etc.), medical student at KI.
Lorenz Poellinger (b. 1957), professor at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at KI.

Departments of research (by location)

Campus Solna

Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB)
Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics (CGB)
Institute of Environmental Medicine
Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME)
Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB)
Medical Epidemiology
Microbiology and Tumor Biology Centre (MTC)
Neuroscience
Physiology and Pharmacology

KI North - at Karolinska Hospital and Danderyd Hospital

Campus Huddinge and Söder Hospital

Biosciences at Novum
Center for Surgical Sciences (CFSS)
Clinical Research Center
Clinical Sciences
Medical Laboratory Sciences and Technology
Medical Nutrition
Medicine
Microbiology, Pathology, and Immunology
NEUROTEC
Nursing
Odontology
Söder Hospital

External links

Karolinska Institutet - Official site

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History

Notable alumni or faculty

Departments of research (by location)

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