Hans Wigzell

Former President Karolinska Institutet

Stockholm

Sweden

Professor Wigzell was President of Karolinska Institute between 1995–2003. He graduated from the Karolinska Institute as a Physician (MD) 1967 and a DSc.Professor in the Department of Immunology at Uppsala University 1972 returning to the Karolinska as a Professor of Immunology1982. In 1987 until 1992 Director General of the National Bacteriological Laboratory in Stockholm.

1990-1992 Chairman of the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska, 1993-95 Secretary-General of the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control.1999-2007 Chief Scientific Advisor to the Swedish Government. Adjunct Professor at University of Maryland,Baltimore and at Ehime University, Matsuyama,Japan.

Chairman of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute in 2000.Elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, the Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, EMBO, Academia Europea and honorary member of the American Society for Immunology.

Awarded a number of prizes including the Anders Jahre Medical Prize, the Erik Fernström’s Prize for Young Scientists, the Russel Weiser Lecturer Prize and the Smith Lecture Award.