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Karolinska Institute
Karolinska Institute
	Karolinska institutet
Motto	To improve human health
Established	1810
Type	Medical University
President	Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson
Staff	3,600 (2009)
Students	5,500 (FTE, 2008)
Doctoral students	2,100 (2009)
Location	Stockholm, Sweden
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	LERU
Website	http://www.ki.se/

Entrance from Solnavägen

The Berzelius laboratory, KI Solna

The University library and the Berzelius laboratory, KI Solna

The old yard, KI Solna

Original Caroline Institute buildings at street Hantverkargatan in Kungsholmen, Stockholm

Karolinska Institutet (often translated from Swedish into English 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 its main campus located in Solna, just outside Stockholm, and at a second campus in Flemingsberg/Huddinge south of Stockholm.

A committee of the institute appoints the laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Karolinska University Hospital, located in Solna and Huddinge, is associated with the university as a research and teaching hospital. Together they form an academic health science centre. 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. projects are conducted in English.

The institute is a member of the League of European Research Universities. According to the 2008 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the institute is ranked as the 51st best research university in the world, 11th in Europe and 1st in Sweden.^[3] It is ranked 18th in the world in the field of Life and Agricultural Sciences and 9th in Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy.^[4]

[edit] History

Karolinska Institutet was founded in the period between 1810 and 1811 as a training center for army surgeons. The original name was at first 'Medico-Chirurgiska Institutet'. In 1817 the prefix 'Karolinska' was added as a reference to 'Karoliner' which was the name of soldiers under the Swedish king Karl XII. The full name thus became 'Kongl. Carolinska Medico Chirurgiska Institutet'. In 1968 this name was changed to 'Karolinska Institutet'.

[edit] Notable alumni or faculty

Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848; professor at KI), invented modern chemical notation and is considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry; discoverer of the elements silicon, selenium, thorium, and cerium.
Carl Gustaf Mosander (1792-1858; student of Berzelius, his successor 1836), chemist, discoverer of the elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium.
Gustaf Retzius (1842-1919), anatomist (Professor 1877-1890)
Karl Oskar Medin (1847-1928), paediatrician, famous for his study of poliomyelitis (Professor 1883-1914)
Ivar Wickman (1872-1914), pediatrician, pupil of Medin, polio expert
Hugo Theorell (1903-1982), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1955
Torsten Wiesel (1924-), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1981
Pehr Edman (1916-1977), chemist (Med. dr 1946). Cf. Edman degradation
Lars Leksell (1907-1986), physician, inventor of radiosurgery and the Gamma Knife.
Sune Bergström (1916-2004), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 (with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John Robert Vane).
Bengt I. Samuelsson (b. 1934), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 (with Sune Bergström and John Robert Vane).
Ragnar Granit (1900-1991), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1967.
Göran Liljestrand (1886-1968), physiologist and pharmacologist.
Ulf von Euler (1905-1983), physiologist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1970.
Lorenz Poellinger (b. 1957), professor at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at KI.
Rolf Luft (1914-2007), professor, endocrinologist.
Tomas Lindahl, cancer researcher and winner of the Royal Medal.

[edit] Departments of research (by location)

Campus Solna

Cell and Molecular Biology
Environmental Medicine
Learning, Informatics, Management & Ethics
Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology
Neuroscience
Physiology and Pharmacology
Woman and Child Health

Karolinska Hospital, Solna

Clinical Neuroscience
Clinical Science, Intervention & Technology
Medicine, Solna
Molecular Medicine and Surgery
Oncology-Pathology
Public Health Sciences

Campus Huddinge

Biosciences and Nutrition
Dental Medicine
Laboratory Medicine
Medicine, Huddinge
Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society

Other

Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset
Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital

[edit] Research at Karolinska

Researchers at Karolinska largely focus on medical and biomedical research in all disease areas. Particular strengths are in neuroscience, cancer biology, immunology and metabolic diseases.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b "In brief 2009-2010" (PDF). Karolinska Institutet. 2009. http://ki.se/content/1/c4/04/13/korta_fakta_0910_englow.pdf.
^ Swedish Higher Education Authority (Högskoleverket) - statistics for 2008 (Swedish), page 121
^ Liu, N.C.; Chen, Y. (2008-08-25). "Top 100 European Universities". 2008 Academic Ranking of World Universities. Shanghai, China: Center for World-Class Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/ARWU2008_TopEuro(EN).htm. Retrieved 2009-02-08.
^ Liu, N.C.; Chen, Y. (2008-02-18). "Academic Ranking of World Universities by Broad Subject Fields – 2008". Academic Ranking of World Universities Field – 2008. Shanghai, China: Center for World-Class Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. http://www.arwu.org/ARWU-FIELD2008.htm. Retrieved 2009-02-08.

[edit] External links

Karolinska Institutet - Official site
KI Community - Interactive internal website for scientists at Karolinska Institutet

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Coordinates: 59°20′56″N 18°01′36″E / 59.34889°N 18.02667°E / 59.34889; 18.02667

[inbrief2009-0] "In brief 2009-2010" (PDF). Karolinska Institutet. 2009. http://ki.se/content/1/c4/04/13/korta_fakta_0910_englow.pdf.

[1] Swedish Higher Education Authority (Högskoleverket) - statistics for 2008 (Swedish), page 121

[2] Liu, N.C.; Chen, Y. (2008-08-25). "Top 100 European Universities". 2008 Academic Ranking of World Universities. Shanghai, China: Center for World-Class Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/ARWU2008_TopEuro(EN).htm. Retrieved 2009-02-08.

[3] Liu, N.C.; Chen, Y. (2008-02-18). "Academic Ranking of World Universities by Broad Subject Fields – 2008". Academic Ranking of World Universities Field – 2008. Shanghai, China: Center for World-Class Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. http://www.arwu.org/ARWU-FIELD2008.htm. Retrieved 2009-02-08.

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