Lectures and seminars Torsten Wiesel 100 years

13-06-2024 9:45 am - 11:30 am Add to iCal
Campus Solna Wallenbergsalen, Nobel Forum, Nobels väg 1, Solna
Torsten Wiesel. Photo: Ingrid Helander.

Seminar on his Nobel Prize and panel discussion on “How to form a creative university environment”.

Welcome to a celebration of Professor and neurophysiologist Torsten Wiesel and his unparalleled scientific contributions and academic leadership accomplishments.

In 1981 Torsten Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system.

The seminar is fully booked.

For questions, please contact charlotta.myren@ki.se


We look forward to seeing you at the event!

Professor Martin Bergö, Vice President Karolinska Institutet and Professor Carl Johan Sundberg, Dean of KI North

 

Agenda

9:45
Welcome

Vice President Karolinska Institutet Martin Bergö.

9:55
On Torsten Wiesel’s discoveries and academic leadership

Professor Sten Grillner
 

10:15
The awards in neuroscience following Torsten Wiesel

Professor Christian Broberger

10.30
Panel discussion on ”How to form a creative university environment”
  • Introduction, Professor Torsten Wiesel
  • Panel discussion, Professors Anna Wedell and Sten Linnarsson
11.15
Announcement of the Medical Student Union’s Torsten Wiesel Medal

to be awarded to a PhD, Medical or Master student annually
Professor Carl Johan Sundberg

Contact

Charlotta Myrén Secretary to the Management