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The Karolinska Institute or Karolinska institutet is a medical university in Stockholm, Sweden. 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 per cent of the medical training and 40 per cent of the medical academic research that is conducted nationwide.The institute is a member of the League of European Research Universities.
1 Notable alumni or faculty
- 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 radiosurgeryRadiosurgery is a medical procedure which allows non-invasive brain surgery, i. without actually opening the skull), by means of directed beams of ionizing radiation. It is a relatively recent technique ( 1951), which is used to destroy, by means of a pre and the Gamma Knife .
- Sune BergströmSune Karl Bergstrom ( January 10, 1916 August 15, 2004) was a Swedish biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982, for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances. (1916-2004), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 (with Bengt I. SamuelssonBengt Ingemar Samuelsson (born May 21, 1934) is a biochemist. He was born in Halmstad in southwest Sweden and studied at Stockholm University, where he became a professor in 1967. He shared with Sune Bergstrom the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medici and John Robert VaneJohn Robert Vane ( March 29, 1927 November 19, 2004) was a British bio chemist. His father was the son of immigrants from Russia and his mother came from a Worcestershire farming family. He was educated at King Edward's School in Edgbaston, Birmingham, an).
- Bengt I. SamuelssonBengt Ingemar Samuelsson (born May 21, 1934) is a biochemist. He was born in Halmstad in southwest Sweden and studied at Stockholm University, where he became a professor in 1967. He shared with Sune Bergstrom the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medici (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.
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Swedish universities
