Barbara Cannon#
Foto: Erik Huss
| Membership Number: | 4548 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 Professor emeritus, Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University
- 1983 - 2013 Professor, Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University
- 2009 - 2014 Guest professor, The Royal Veterinary College, London
- 2007 - 2009 Guest professor, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland
- 2002 - 2006 Consultant, Biovitrum Ltd.
- 1980 - 1983 Associate Professor, Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University
- 1974 - 1980 Research Associate, Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University
- 1973 - 1974 Postdoctoral fellow, Canadian Research Council, Ottawa
- 1971 - 1973 Research Assistant, Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University
- 1967 - 1971 Doctoral student, Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University
Fields of Scholarship
- Energy metabolism
- Bioenergetics
- Brown adipose tissue
- Obesity
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, Japan
- 2016 Experimental Biology and American Physiological Society Prize for Scientific Reviews
- 2012-2015 President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2014 King’s Medel (12th size), the Order of the Seraphims, Sweden
- 2014 Honorary doctor, Buckingham University, Buckingham, UK
- 2013 European Lipid Research Award from EuroFedLipid
- 2013 Honorary doctor, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
- 2012 International Union of Physiological Sciences, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Prize Lecture
- 2009 Honorary doctor, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2009-2012 Chairman of the Trustees of the Nobel Foundation
- 2006-2012 Member of the Trustees of the Nobel Foundation
- 2003-2008 Vice-President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 1989- Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
