New professors at Karolinska Institutet 2011

Karolinska Institutet's yearly installation ceremony is held on Tuesday November 8 at the Berwaldhallen concert hall in Stockholm. During the ceremony 44 new Professors, of which 15 are Adjunct Professors and two Visiting Professors, will be presented and academic awards will be announced.

New professors

• Alejandro Bertorello, Professor of Cardiovascular Cell Physiology and Signal Transduction
• Mats Brommels, Professor of Medical Leadership, Organization and Innovation
• Nico Dantuma, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology
• Henrik Druid, Professor of Forensic Medicine
• Ewa Ehrenborg, Professor of Molecular Cardiovascular Medicine
• Maria Eriksdotter-Jönhagen, Professor of Geriatrics
• Bengt Fadeel, Professor of Medical Inflammation Research
• Elisabeth Faxelid, Professor of Reproductive and Perinatal Nursing
• Johan Franck, Professor of Psychiatry, especially Addiction Research
• Balázs Gulyás, Professor of Professor of Nucleomedicine, especially Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
• Petter Höglund, Professor of Basal Immunology, especially Clinically Applied Cell Therapy and Transplantation
• Jan Johansson, Professor of Biological Dementia Research
• Anna Josephson, Professor of Neuroscience with reference to educational excellence
• Lena von Koch, Professor of Health Care Research
• Ann Langius-Eklöf, Professor of Nursing, especially the Development of Education
• Lars-Gunnar Larsson, Professor of Tumour and Cell Biology, especially Transcriptional Regulation
• Mats Lekander, Professor of Health Psychology
• Birgitta Sander, Professor of Pathology, especially Haematopathology
• Camilla Sjögren, Professor of Cell and Tumour Biology
• Sharon Stone-Elander, Professor of Translational Medical Radiochemistry
• Laszlo Szekely, Professor of Haematological Malignant Diseases
• Jari Tiihonen, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
• Ronald van Vollenhoven, Professor of Clinical Research in Treatment, especially in Inflammatory Diseases
• Elisabete Weiderpass, Professor of Medical Epidemiology
• Ola Winqvist, Professor of Cellular Immunotherapy
• Anthony Wright, Professor of Molecular Biology
• Per Wändell, Professor of General Medicine

Adjunct professors

• Sven Andréasson, Adjunct Professor of Social Medicine
• Mats Blennow, Adjunct Professor of Perinatal Brain Research
• Carl-Gustaf Elinder, Adjunct Professor of Nephrology
• Martin Grann, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology
• Lena Hjelte, Adjunct Professor of Paediatrics
• Torbjörn Ivert, Adjunct Professor of Surgery
• Mats Jensen-Urstad, Adjunct Professor of Cardiology
• Anders Kvanta, Adjunct Professor of Ophtalmology
• Johan Lökk, Adjunct Professor of Geriatrics
• Rolf Sandin, Adjunct Professor of Physiology/Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, especially Consciousness and Awareness
• Pär Stjärne, Adjunct Professor of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases
• Leif Svensson, Adjunct Professor of Cardiology
• Elisabeth Syk Blennow, Adjunct Professor of Clinical Genetics
• Hans Törnqvist, Adjunct Professor of Orthopaedics
• Elisabeth Åvall Lundqvist, Adjunct Professor of Oncology

Visiting Professors

• Paolo Macchiarini, Visiting Professor of Regenerative Surgery
• Per Olof Sandman, Visiting Professor of Nursing