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Karolinska Institutet (often translated from Swedish
Swedish language

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 into English
English language

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 as the Karolinska Institute, and in older texts often as the Royal Caroline Institute) is one of Europe's largest medical universities.






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Karolinska Institutet (often translated from Swedish
Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands....
 into English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 as the Karolinska Institute, and in older texts often as the Royal Caroline Institute) is one of Europe's largest medical universities. It was founded in 1810 and is located in Solna
Solna Municipality

----Solna Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, located just north of the Capital Stockholm....
, just outside Stockholm
Stockholm

is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish Government of Sweden, the Parliament of Sweden, and the official residence of the Swedish Monarchy of Sweden....
.

A committee of the institute appoints the laureates for the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
 in Physiology or Medicine
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
. The Karolinska University Hospital
Karolinska University Hospital

The Karolinska University Hospital is a university hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, with two major sites in the municipalities of Huddinge and Solna Municipality....
 is associated with the university as a teaching hospital. Together they form an academic health science centre
Academic health science centre

An academic health science centre is a partnership between one or more universities and healthcare providers focusing on world-class research, clinical services, education and training....
. It is one of Sweden's largest centres for training and research, accounting for 30 percent of the medical training and 40 percent of the medical academic research conducted nationwide. While most of the medical programs are taught in Swedish, the bulk of the Ph.D.
Ph.D.

Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
 projects are conducted in English.

The institute is a member of the League of European Research Universities
League of European Research Universities

According to its mission statement, the League of European Research Universities is "a group of European research-intensive university committed to the values of high quality teaching within an environment of internationally competitive research."...
. According to the 2008 Academic Ranking of World Universities
Academic Ranking of World Universities

The Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University?s Institute of Higher Education and includes major institutes of higher education ranked according to a formula that took into account alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals , staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals , ?highly-cited researchers...
, the institute is ranked as the 51st best research university in the world, 11th in Europe and 1st in Sweden. It is ranked 18th in the world in the field of Life and Agricultural Sciences and 9th in Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy.

History

Karolinska Institutet was founded in the period between 1810 and 1811 as a training center for army
Army

An army , in the broadest sense, is the land-based armed forces of a nation. It may also include other branches of the military such as an air force....
 surgeons. The original name was at first 'Medico-Chirurgiska Institutet'. In 1817 the prefix 'Karolinska' was added as a reference to 'Karoliner
Caroleans

Caroleans were the soldiers of the Swedish kings Charles XI and Charles XII of Sweden....
' which was the name of soldiers under the Swedish king Karl XII
Charles XII of Sweden

Charles XII was the Monarch of Sweden from 1697 to 1718.Charles was the only surviving son of King Charles XI of Sweden and Ulrike Eleonora of Denmark, and he assumed the crown at the age of fifteen, at the death of his father....
. The full name thus became 'Kongl. Carolinska Medico Chirurgiska Institutet'. In 1968 this name was changed to 'Karolinska Institutet'.

Notable alumni or faculty

  • Jöns Jakob Berzelius
    Jöns Jakob Berzelius

    Friherre J?ns Jacob Berzelius was a Sweden chemist. He worked out the modern technique of chemical formula, and is together with John Dalton, Antoine Lavoisier, and Robert Boyle considered a father of modern chemistry....
     (1779-1848; professor at KI), invented modern chemical notation
    Chemical formula

    A chemical formula is a way of expressing information about the atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound, and how the relationship between those atoms changes in chemical reactions....
     and is considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry
    Chemistry

    Chemistry is the science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions....
    ; discoverer of the elements silicon
    Silicon

    Silicon is the most common metalloid. It is a chemical element, which has the symbol Si and atomic number 14. The atomic mass is 28.0855....
    , selenium
    Selenium

    Selenium is a chemical element with the atomic number 34, represented by the chemical symbol Se, an atomic mass of 78.96. It is a nonmetal, chemically related to sulfur and tellurium, and rarely occurs in its elemental state in nature....
    , thorium
    Thorium

    Thorium is a chemical element with the symbol Th and atomic number 90. As a naturally occurring, slightly radioactive metal, it has been considered as an alternative nuclear fuel to uranium....
    , and cerium
    Cerium

    Cerium is a chemical element with the symbol Ce and atomic number 58....
    .
  • Carl Gustaf Mosander
    Carl Gustaf Mosander

    Carl Gustaf Mosander was a Swedish chemist. He discovered the elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium.Mosander went to school in Kalmar until he moved to Stockholm with his mother at age 12....
     (1792-1858; student of Berzelius, his successor 1836), chemist, discoverer of the elements lanthanum
    Lanthanum

    Lanthanum is a chemical element with the symbol La and atomic number 57.Lanthanum is a silvery white metallic element that belongs to group 3 of the periodic table and is a lanthanoid....
    , erbium
    Erbium

    Erbium is a chemical element with the symbol Er and atomic number 68. A rare, silvery, white metallic lanthanide, erbium is solid in its normal state....
     and terbium
    Terbium

    Terbium is a chemical element with the symbol Tb and atomic number 65....
    .
  • Gustaf Retzius
    Gustaf Retzius

    Magnus Gustaf Retzius was a Sweden physician and anatomist who dedicated a large part of his life to researching the histology of the sense organs and nervous system....
     (1842-1919), anatomist (Progessor 1877-1890)
  • Karl Oskar Medin
    Karl Oskar Medin

    Karl Oskar Medin was a Sweden Pediatrics. He was born at Axberg, ?rebro and died in Stockholm. He is most famous for his study of poliomyelitis, an illness often known as the Heine-Medin disease, named after Medin and another physician, Jakob Heine....
     (1847-1928), paediatrician, famous for his study of poliomyelitis (Professor 1883-1914)
  • Ivar Wickman
    Ivar Wickman

    Otto Ivar Wickman was a Sweden physician, who discovered in 1907 the epidemic and contagious character of poliomyelitis...
     (1872-1914), pediatrician, pupil of Medin, polio expert
  • Hugo Theorell
    Hugo Theorell

    Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell was a Sweden scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine.He was born in Link?ping as the son of Thure Theorell and his wife Armida Bill....
     (1903-1982), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
     in 1955
  • Torsten Wiesel
    Torsten Wiesel

    Torsten Nils Wiesel was a Swedish co-recipient with David H. Hubel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W....
     (1924-), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
     in 1981
  • Pehr Edman
    Pehr Edman

    Pehr Victor Edman was a Sweden biochemistry. He developed a method for sequencing proteins, the Edman degradation....
     (1916-1977), chemist (Med. dr 1946). Cf. Edman degradation
    Edman degradation

    Edman degradation, developed by Pehr Edman, is a method of Protein sequencing amino acids in a peptide. In this method, the amino-terminal residue is labeled and cleaved from the peptide without disrupting the peptide bonds between other amino acid residues....
  • Lars Leksell
    Lars Leksell

    Lars Leksell was a Swedish physician and Professor of Neurosurgery at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the inventor of radiosurgery....
     (1907-1986), physician, inventor of radiosurgery
    Radiosurgery

    Radiosurgery, also known as stereotactic radiotherapy, is a medical procedure which allows Non-invasive treatment of benign and malignant conditions, arteriovenous malformation , and some functional disorders by means of directed beams of ionizing radiation....
     and the Gamma Knife
    Gamma knife

    A gamma knife is a device used to treat brain tumors with a high dose of radiation therapy in one day. The device was invented by Lars Leksell, a Swedish neurosurgeon, in 1967 at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden....
    .
  • Sune Bergström
    Sune Bergström

    Sune Karl Bergstr?m was a Sweden biochemist.In 1975, he was appointed to the Nobel Foundation Board of Directors in Sweden.In 1975, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Bengt I....
     (1916-2004), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
     in 1982 (with Bengt I. Samuelsson
    Bengt I. Samuelsson

    Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson is a Swedish biochemist.He was born in Halmstad in southwest Sweden and studied at Stockholm University, where he became a professor in 1967....
     and John Robert Vane
    John Robert Vane

    Sir John Robert Vane was a British pharmacologist. His father was the son of immigrants from Russia and his mother came from a Worcestershire farming family....
    ).
  • Bengt I. Samuelsson
    Bengt I. Samuelsson

    Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson is a Swedish biochemist.He was born in Halmstad in southwest Sweden and studied at Stockholm University, where he became a professor in 1967....
     (b. 1934), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
     in 1982 (with Sune Bergström
    Sune Bergström

    Sune Karl Bergstr?m was a Sweden biochemist.In 1975, he was appointed to the Nobel Foundation Board of Directors in Sweden.In 1975, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Bengt I....
     and John Robert Vane
    John Robert Vane

    Sir John Robert Vane was a British pharmacologist. His father was the son of immigrants from Russia and his mother came from a Worcestershire farming family....
    ).
  • Ragnar Granit
    Ragnar Granit

    Ragnar Arthur Granit was a Finnish scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald....
     (1900-1991), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
     in 1967.
  • Göran Liljestrand
    Göran Liljestrand

    G?ran Liljestrand , Swedish pharmacologist, known for the discovery of the Euler-Liljestrand mechanism.Liljestrand was born in Gothenburg but finished school at the Norra Real school in Stockholm, before matriculating at the Stockholm University in 1904....
     (1886-1968), physiologist and pharmacologist.
  • Ulf von Euler
    Ulf von Euler

    Ulf Svante von Euler was a Swedish Physiology and pharmacologist. He won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for his work on neurotransmitters....
     (1905-1983), physiologist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
     in 1970.
  • Lorenz Poellinger (b. 1957), professor at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at KI.
  • Rolf Luft (1914-2007), professor, endocrinologist
    Endocrinology

    Endocrinology is a branch of medicine dealing with disorder of the endocrine system and its specific secretions called hormones....
    .
  • Tomas Lindahl
    Tomas Lindahl

    Dr Tomas Lindahl Fellow of the Royal Society is a Swedish scientist and winner of the Royal Medal. He gained his Doctor of Medicine qualification in 1970 from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, followed by postgraduate work at Princeton University and Rockefeller University....
    , cancer researcher and winner of the Royal Medal
    Royal Medal

    The Royal Medal, also known as The Queen's Medal, is a silver gilt medal awarded each year by the Royal Society, two for "the most important contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge" and one for "distinguished contributions in the applied sciences" made within the Commonwealth of Nations....
    .


Departments of research (by location)

Campus Solna
Solna Municipality

----Solna Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, located just north of the Capital Stockholm....
  • Cell
    Cell (biology)

    The cell is the structural and functional unit of all known Life organisms. It is the smallest unit of an organism that is classified as living, and is often called the building bricks of life....
     and Molecular Biology
    Molecular biology

    Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecule level. The field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry....
     (CMB)
  • Institute of Environmental Medicine
    Environmental medicine

    Environmental medicine is a multidisciplinary field involving medicine, environmental science, chemistry and others. The scope of this field involves studying the interactions between environment and human health, and the role of the environment in causing or mediating disease....
  • Learning, Informatics
    Informatics

    Informatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information....
    , Management
    Management

    Management in business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leadership or directing, and Control an organization or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal....
     and Ethics
    Ethics

    Ethics is a word for a philosophy that encompasses proper conduct and good living. It is significantly broader than the common conception of ethics as the analyzing of right and wrong....
     (LIME)
  • Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
    Biophysics

    Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that employs and develops theories and methods of the physical sciences for the investigation of biology systems....
     (MBB)
  • Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB)
  • Microbiology
    Microbiology

    Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are unicellular or cell-cluster microscopic organisms. This includes eukaryote such as fungi and protists, and prokaryotes, which are bacteria and archaea....
    , Tumor
    Tumor

    A tumor or tumour is the name for a swelling or lesion formed by an abnormal growth of cells . Tumor is not synonymous with cancer. A tumor can be Benign neoplasm, Carcinoma in situ or malignant, whereas cancer is by definition malignant....
     and Cell Biology (MTC)
  • Neuroscience
    Neuroscience

    Neuroscience is a field devoted to the scientific study of the nervous system. The Society for Neuroscience was founded in 1969, but the study of the brain started a long time ago....
  • Physiology
    Physiology

    Physiology is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms. Physiology has traditionally been divided between plant physiology and animal and all living things physiology but the principles of physiology are universal, no matter what particular organism is being studied....
     and Pharmacology
    Pharmacology

    Pharmacology is the study of drug action. More specifically it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and exogenous chemicals that alter normal biochemical function....


KI North - at Karolinska Hospital and Danderyd Hospital
  • Clinical Neuroscience
    Neuroscience

    Neuroscience is a field devoted to the scientific study of the nervous system. The Society for Neuroscience was founded in 1969, but the study of the brain started a long time ago....
  • Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital
    Hospital

    A hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment, and often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays....
  • Medicine
    Medicine

    Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
  • Molecular Medicine
    Molecular medicine

    Molecular medicine is a broad field, where physical, chemical, biological and medical techniques are used to describe molecular structures and mechanisms, identify fundamental molecular and genetic errors of disease, and to develop molecular interventions to correct them....
     and Surgery
  • Oncology
    Oncology

    Oncology is the branch of medicine that studies tumors . A medical professional who practices oncology is an oncologist. The term originates from the Greek onkos , meaning bulk, mass, or tumor and the suffix -logy, meaning "study of"....
    -Pathology
    Pathology

    Pathology is the study and diagnosis of disease through examination of Organ , tissue , bodily fluids and whole bodies . The term also encompasses the related science study of disease processes, called General pathology....
  • Public Health Science
  • Women and Child Health


Campus Huddinge and Söder Hospital
  • Bioscience
    BioScience

    BioScience is the flagship publication of the American Institute of Biological Sciences . It is a peer-reviewed, heavily cited, monthly science journal with content written and edited for accessibility to researchers, educators, and students alike....
     and Nutrition
  • Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology
  • Laboratory Medicine
  • Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society
  • Medicine
    Medicine

    Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
  • Odontology
  • Clinical Science and Education, Söder Hospital


Research at Karolinska


Researchers at Karolinska largely focus on medical research with emphasis on reproductive health, immunological disorders and oncogenomics.

See also

  • Stockholm University
    Stockholm University

    Stockholm University is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. It has about 27,500 students studying at four faculties....
  • Royal Institute of Technology
    Royal Institute of Technology

    The Royal Institute of Technology is a university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden's first polytechnic and is with TKK in Helsinki, depending on definition, Scandinavia's largest institution of higher education in technology and one of the leading technical universities in Europe ....
  • Stockholm School of Economics
    Stockholm School of Economics

    The Stockholm School of Economics or Handelsh?gskolan i Stockholm is a highly ranked business Schools and is one of two private institution of higher education in Sweden....
  • Sahlgrenska University Hospital
    Sahlgrenska University Hospital

    The Sahlgren University Hospital is a system of hospitals associated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. The hospital has been named after philanthropist Niclas Sahlgren and is the now the largest hospital in the whole of Northern Europe....
  • List of universities in Sweden
    List of universities in Sweden

    This list of university and University colleges#Sweden and Norways in Sweden is based on the Higher Education Ordinance of 1993 . All higher education in Sweden is publicly funded, but the listing also includes the officially recognised independent higher education institutions that operate under contract with the Swedish Government of Sweden...


External links

  • - Official site
  • - Interactive internal website for scientists at Karolinska Institutet