Karolinska Institutet

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Karolinska Institute
Karolinska Institutet
Image:Karolinska logo.gif
Motto:	To improve human health
Established	1810
Type:	Medical University
President:	Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson
Staff:	3,600 [1]
Undergraduates:	6,000
Postgraduates:	3,000
Doctoral students:	1,500
Location	Stockholm, Sweden
Campus:	Urban
Affiliations:	LERU
Website:	http://www.ki.se/

Karolinska Institutet (often translated from Swedish into English as the Karolinska Institute, and in older texts often as the Royal Caroline Institute) is one of Europe's largest medical universities. It was founded in 1810 and is located in Solna, just outside Stockholm.

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 Ph.D. projects are conducted in English.

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

Contents 1 History 2 Notable alumni or faculty 3 Departments of research (by location) 4 Research at Karolinska 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] History

Karolinska Institutet was founded in the period between 1810 and 1811 as a training center for army surgeons. The original name was at first 'Medico-Chirurgiska Institutet'. In 1817 the prefix 'Karolinska' was added as a reference to 'Karoliner' which was the name of soldiers under the Swedish king Karl XIII. The full name thus became 'Kongl. Carolinska Medico Chirurgiska Institutet'. In 1968 this name was changed to 'Karolinska Institutet'.

[edit] 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.
• Lorenz Poellinger (b. 1957), professor at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at KI.
• Rolf Luft (1914-2007), professor, endocrinologist

[edit] 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

• Clinical Neuroscience
• Danderyd Hospital
• Medicine
• Molecular Medicine
• Oncology-Pathology
• Public Health Science
• Surgical Science
• Women and Child Health

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

[edit] Research at Karolinska

Researchers at Karolinska largely focus on medical research with emphasis on reproductive health, immunological disorders and oncogenomics.

[edit] See also

• Stockholm University
• Royal Institute of Technology
• Stockholm School of Economics
• Sahlgrenska University Hospital
• List of universities in Sweden

[edit] References

1. ^ "Karolinska Institutet Brochures", Karolinska Institutet, September 2006. 

[edit] External links

• Karolinska Institutet - Official site

Higher education in Stockholm County
Universities and University Colleges in Stockholm County:
Ersta Sköndal University College | Karolinska Institutet | Red Cross University College of Nursing | Royal College of Music Royal Institute of Technology | Royal University College of Fine Arts | Sophiahemmet University College Stockholm Institute of Education | Stockholm School of Economics | Stockholm School of Theology | Stockholm University Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting | Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences Södertörn University College | University College of Arts, Crafts and Design | University College of Dance University College of Music Education | University college of Opera

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Amsterdam • Cambridge • Edinburgh • Freiburg • Geneva • Heidelberg • Helsinki • Karolinska (Stockholm) • Leiden • Leuven • London (UCL) • Lund • Milan • LMU Munich • Oxford • Paris VI • Paris-Sud • Strasbourg I (Louis Pasteur) • Utrecht • Zürich

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