Per-Olof Berggren#
Present and Previous positions:
- 1982, PhD in Medical Cell Biology, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
- 1985, Associate professor in Medical Cell Biology, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
- Professor and Head Cell Biology and Experimental Endocrinology, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Director The Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Visiting Professor April 1 – December 31 2005 at École Polythechnique, Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland *Visiting Professor 2005 – 2008 at The University of Oxford, The John Radcliffe, Headington, Oxford, U.K.
- Adjunct Research Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
- Visiting Research Professor, Mary Lou Held Professor of Diabetes Research, at the Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
- Adjunct Professor June 1 2008 – May 31 2010 at the Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea
Awards
- Member Medical Science Review Committee of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, New York, USA 1992-2001 *Member of the Science review committee for the Swedish Diabetes Association 1998-2002
- Member of Metabolism Study Section, NIH, 2001
- Member of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet since 1999
- Member Editorial Board of Diabetes 2000-2002
- Member Editorial Board of American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism 2001-2007
- Member of Editorial Board Cell Metabolism 2005 - present
- Ad hoc member of the Nobel Committee, Karolinska Institutet 2007, 2008, 2009
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Class VII since 2008
- Member of physiological Sciences Funding Committee, Wellcome Trust 2008-2009
- Member of Roche SAB in Metabolism 2007-2008
- Member of Editorial Board of Interdisciplinary Bio Central (IBC) 2009 - present
- Member of Academia Europaea since 2009
- Member of the review committee for The Wenner-Gren Foundations 2009 - present
- 1990, Procordia’s Research Scholarship
- 1992, Research scholarship from Ulf Widengrens Minnesfond
- 1995, Erik K Fernströms prize to young and especially successful researchers
- 1996, Mary Jane Kugel Award Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
- 1998, Roche Diagnostics/Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International Diabetes Care Award
- 1999, Novo Nordisk Foundation Award and Lecture
- 2000, Hilda och Alfred Erikssons prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2001, Mary Jane Kugel Award Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
- 2001, Karolina priset, Karolinska sjukhuset
- 2002, The Swedish Society of Physicians Commemorative Prize
- 2007, The Special Symposium Lecture at the 48th Enzyme Regulation Meeting in Bologna, September 25
- 2009, The 22nd Annual Edwin G. Krebs Lecture in Molecular Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, June 2
- 2010, Distinguished Professor Award, Karolinska Institutet