Karolinska Institutet
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| Motto | Att förbättra människors hälsa (To improve human health) |
| Established | 1810 |
| Type | Medical University |
| President | Anders Hamsten |
| Admin. staff | 3,600 (2009)[1] |
| Students | 5,500 (FTE, 2009)[2] |
| Doctoral students | 2,100 (2009)[1] |
| Location | Solna, Stockholm County, Sweden |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | KI Plum |
| Website | www.ki.se |
Karolinska Institutet (often translated from Swedish into English as the Karolinska Institute, the -et being a definite article, and in older texts often as the Royal Caroline Institute) is a medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area, Sweden, and one of Europe's largest and most prestigious medical universities. It was founded in 1810 on Kungsholmen on the west side of Stockholm; the main campus was relocated decades later to Solna, just outside Stockholm. A second campus was established more recently in Flemingsberg, Huddinge, south of Stockholm.
Karolinska Institutet is Sweden's third oldest medical school, after Uppsala University (founded in 1477) and Lund University (founded in 1666). According to the 2012 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Karolinska Institutet is ranked 32nd worldwide, 6th in Europe, and 1st in the Nordic region [3] and according to the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Karolinska Institute is ranked 9th in the world in the field of clinical medicine and pharmacology and among the first 20 universities in life sciences.[4]
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.
A committee of the institute appoints the laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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History [edit]
Karolinska Institutet was founded in the period between 1810 and 1811, following the Finnish War, 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 the then-Swedish king Karl XIII (Carolus in Latin).[5] The full name thus became Kongliga Carolinska Medico Chirurgiska Institutet.[6] In 1968 this name was abbreviated to 'Karolinska Institutet'.
Notable alumni or faculty [edit]
- 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 chemist Jöns Jacob 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)
- Wilhelm Netzel (1834-1914), Swedish researcher, gynecologist and obstretician
- Ivar Wickman (1872–1914), pediatrician, pupil of Medin, polio expert
- Herbert Olivecrona (1891–1980), founder of Swedish neurosurgery
- 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.
- Sven Ivar Seldinger (1921–1998), radiologist, inventor of the Seldinger technique.
- Rolf Luft (1914–2007), professor, endocrinologist.
- Tomas Lindahl, cancer researcher and winner of the Royal Medal.
Departments of research (by location) [edit]
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
- Surgery, Huddinge
- Dental Medicine
- Laboratory Medicine
- Medicine, Huddinge
- Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society
Other
- Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset
- Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital
See also [edit]
- List of universities in Sweden
- Sahlgrenska University Hospital
- Royal Institute of Technology
- Stockholm School of Economics
- Stockholm University
- The New Karolinska Solna University Hospital, to be opened in 2015
References [edit]
- ^ a b "In brief 2009-2010" (PDF). Karolinska Institutet. 2009.
- ^ Swedish Higher Education Authority (Högskoleverket) - Annual report 2010 (Swedish), page 106ff
- ^ "THE World University Rankings 2011-2012". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 32 Oct 2011.
- ^ "Academic Ranking of World Universities in Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy 2011". ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Retrieved 07 Jun 2012.
- ^ Ljunggren,, Bengt; Bruyn, George W. (2002). The Nobel Prize in Medicine and the Karolinska Institute: The Story of Axel Key and Alfred Nobel. Karger Publishers. p. 22. ISBN 9783805572972.
- ^ "KIs historia". Karolinska Institutet. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
External links [edit]
- Karolinska Institutet - Official site
- 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
