Rikard Holmdahl
Rikard Holmdahl | |||
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| Born | March 28th 1953 | ||
| Nationality | Swedish | ||
| Citizenship | Sweden | ||
| Education | PhD and MD | ||
| Alma mater | Uppsala University | ||
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Rikard Holmdahl (born March 28th 1953, son of Martin Holmdahl and Barbro Holmdahl) is a Swedish physician and immunologist. He was appointed as a full professor and the head of Medical Inflammation Research (MIR) unit at Lund University in 1993. In 2008, Rikard and his whole research group were recruited to Karolinska Institute. His team was the first to discover and positionally clone a Single-nucleotide polymorphism at the NCF1 gene causing susceptibility to Autoimmune disease in rat models [1].
Career
Rikard Holmdahl obtained his Doctor of Philosophy and Medical Doctor degrees at Uppsala University in 1985 and 1987, respectively. After his clinical Residency (medicine) training during 1988-1989, he started his research fellowship and was promoted as Associate professor at Swedish Research Council in 1990.
Professorship
He becomes a full professor since 1993 and works at Lund University (1993-2008) and Karolinska Institute (2008-present).
Member of the Nobel Assembly
He was a member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute during 2014-2021 and an adjunct member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine during 2016-2021 [2]. He is also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2017 [3].
Awards
2016 The Yangtze River Scholar Award “the highest academic award issued to an individual in higher education by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China”
2015 The Anders Jahre main scientific prize “the most prestigious Nordic prize in medicine” [4].
2011 Selected with highest possible marks, “Outstanding” by the International evaluation of Karolinska Institutet 2011 (ERA).
2006 Research group Medical Inflammation Research selected as an Excellence center for rheumatology research by EULAR (the European Rheumatology Association)
2005 The European Federation of Immunological Societies, Lecture award, DfGI/SSI Kiel
2003 Nordic Medical Prize
2002 The European Descartes Prize “the most prestigious prize in medicine given by the European Community”
1994 The Göran Gustafsson Prize in medicine, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
1992 Fernström prize, Eric Fernström foundation for medical research
1989 The Craaford prize, Anna Greta Craaford foundation for rheumatology research
1988 The Benzelius prize, Royal Science Society, Uppsala
References
- ↑ [https://www.nature.com/articles/ng1058 Olofsson P, et al. Nature genetics, 2002
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
- ↑ "Rikard Holmdahl_kva".
- ↑ "Two KI researchers receive Anders Jahre's Awards for Medical Research | Karolinska Institutet Nyheter". news.ki.se. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
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