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6 unusual facts about Karolinska institutet


Alan H. Goodman

He received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, was a postdoctoral fellow in international nutrition at the University of Connecticut, and a research fellow in stress physiology at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.

Biafra

In 2010, researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and University of Nigeria, Nsukka, showed that Igbos born in Biafra during the years of the famine were of higher risk of suffering from overweight, hypertension and impaired glucose metabolism compared to controls born a short period after the famine had ended.

Daiwa Adrian Prize

University of Cambridge/Harvard University/Karolinska Institutet: Hugh Robinson, Nathan Gouwens, Hugo Zeberg, Rita Kalra

Nils Peter Hamberg

From 1848-1854, Hamberg taught in chemistry and pharmacy at Karolinska Institutet and also worked as a physician.

Olof Guterstam

When he does not play football, he studies to become a physician at Karolinska Institutet in Solna.

Rebecka Liljeberg

In 2002, she completed the adult education course, and go on studying medicine at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, one of the largest medical universities in Europe.


Bioclipse

Bioclipse is developed as a collaboration between the Proteochemometric Group, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, Sweden, the Christoph Steinbeck Group at the European Bioinformatics Institute, and the Analytical Chemistry Department at Leiden University, but also includes extensions developed at other academic institutes, including the Karolinska Institutet and Maastricht University.

Inga Varg

2003: Nominated for the Swedish Association of Architects’ Kasper Salin Award (Kasper Salin-priset) for the newly built Zanderska huset, a training facility at medical university Karolinska institutet in Flemingsberg.

Nobel Committee

The Nobel Committees for four of the prizes, physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature, are working bodies within their prize awarding institutions, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, and the Swedish Academy.


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