Karolinska Institutet
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| Motto | Att förbättra människors hälsa (To improve human health) |
| Established | 1810 |
| Type | Medical University |
| President | Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson |
| 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 |
| 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 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 Institute is ranked 32nd overall, 6th in Europe, and 1st in Nordic region. [3]
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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[edit] History
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). The full name thus became 'Kongliga Carolinska Medico Chirurgiska Institutet'.[4] In 1968 this name was abbreviated 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.
- 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.
[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
- Surgery, Huddinge
- Dental Medicine
- Laboratory Medicine
- Medicine, Huddinge
- Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society
Other
- Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset
- Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital
[edit] See also
- Stockholm University
- Royal Institute of Technology
- Stockholm School of Economics
- Sahlgrenska University Hospital
- List of universities in Sweden
- The New Karolinska Solna University Hospital, to be opened in 2015
[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) - Annual report 2010 (Swedish), page 106ff
- ^ "THE World University Rankings 2011-2012". Times Higher Education. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2011-2012/top-400.html. Retrieved 32 Oct 2011.
- ^ "KIs historia". Karolinska Institutet. http://www.ki.se/essaer200ar/ki_historia.htm. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
[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
