Tomas Hökfelt
Tomas Hökfelt (born 29 June 1940) is a Swedish physician and former professor in
Karolinska Institutet from 1979 until 2006, when he got his emeritate. He was linked to the Department of Neuroscience and is specialized in cell biology.[1]
Biography
Tomas Hökfelt was born in
Research and publications
Tomas Hökfelt's early research was on neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in the brain.[3] In 1977 he discovered that non-neurotransmitter peptide molecules like somatostatin, can exist with neurotransmitters in same peripheral and central neurons.[4]
Hökfelt together with Serguei Fetissov has also conducted research into anorexia nervosa, indicating that it may be a disease, caused by a particular group of antibodies.[5]
Together with Anders Björklund, he has edited 21 volumes of the Handbook of Chemical Neuroanatomy between 1983 and 2005
Awards and honours
- 1984 Member of the National Academy of Sciences[6][circular reference]
- 1987: joint winner of the Artois-Baillet-Latour Health Prize for the study of neuropeptides[7]
- 1988: joint winner of the Bristol-MyersSquibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research
- 1992: Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Tampere, Finland
- 1992: Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1999: Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Ferrara, Italy
- 1999: Doctor Honoris Causa at the Peking University Health Science Center, China
- 2000: Foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[8]
- 2000: Doctor Honoris Causa at the Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 University, France
- 2007: winner of the neurotransmitters[9]
- Honorary Member of the American Physiological Society[10]
- Hökfelt was one of the fifty most often cited scientists in the period 1983-2003[11]
- A more complete list of his awards and honours can be found at ISI[permanent dead link].
Notes
- ^ Karolinska Institutet Archived 2009-12-15 at the Wayback Machine page for Hökfelt]
- ^ Hôkfelt Archived 2009-01-22 at the Wayback Machine at the Royal Institute of Technology
- ^ Swedish Brain Power[permanent dead link], a pdf by the Boston Consulting Group, page 16
- PMID 16592433.
- ^ Times Online on anorexia research (25 September 2005)
- ^ List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Cellular and molecular neuroscience)
- ^ Baillet_latour Health Prize[permanent dead link] portrait of 1987 winner Hökfelt
- ^ People's Daily on the election of seven foreigners to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (10 June 2000)
- ^ Grande Médaille Archived 2008-11-20 at the Wayback Machine: Hökfelt's reception speech
- ^ "Honorary Memberships Granted to Glynn, Hokfelt, Paintal, and Skou" (PDF). The Physiologist. 33 (5). American Physiological Society: 154. October 2009.
- ^ Sciencewatch reports on the fifty most cited scientists between 1983 and 2003
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