Barbara Canlon#
| Membership Number: | 2956 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.medicalnanoscience.se/principal-investigators/47-faculty/principal-investigators/241-barbara-canlon |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 Visiting Professor at Kyoto University Medical School
- 2002 Professor of Hearing Physiology at Karolinska Institutet
- 1991 assistant professor at the Karolinska Institute, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
- 1989 research assistant for the Swedish Medical Research Council, at Karolinska Institutet
- 1989 Post-doctoral position at the CNRS-INSERM, Montpellier, France, with Professor Joel Bockaert
- 1988 Post-doctoral position at the Institute Pasteur, Paris, with Professor Jean-Pierre Changeux
Fields of Scholarship
- Auditory Neurobiology
- Characterizing molecular mechanisms underlying hearing loss and identifying innovative protective strategies
- Microscopic studies of hair cells and neurons in the cochlea
- Regenerative and damaging chemical agents/hormones for hair cells in the cochlea
- Long term and short term stress physiology and epidemiology in relation to hearing impairment
Honours and Awards
- 1990 Awarded by Swedish Medical Society, the Alvarengas Prize for discovering "Sound Induced Outer Hair Cell Motility"
- 1992 C. A. Tegnér Prize "Ocular Transplants of the Inner Ear"
- 1998-present Elected as Vice-President for the Swedish Acoustical Society
- 2006 Elected into CORLAS (Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum)
- 2007 Elected into 13-Club
- 2008 Elected as Vice President of the Physiological Society Stockholm
- 2010 Elected as a Fulbright Commision Board Member
- 2010 Editor-in-Chief for Hearing Research
