Bengt Ivar Bertil Fredholm - Curriculum Vitae#

Born: Stockholm 25 May 1943
Marital status: Married to Elisabeth Fredholm – since 1966. Two children: Charlotta (1967); Anders (1970).

Training and professional:

• Bachelor of Medicine ( Karolinska Institutet) 1964
• Medical Doctor (Ph.D. equivalent; Karolinska Institutet) 1970. Thesis: Studies on the sympathetic regulation of citculation and metabolism in isolated canine subcutaneous adipose tiussue. Advisor: S. Rosell.
• Assistant professor of Pharmacology ( Karolinska Institutet) 1971,
• Associate professor of Pharmacology ( Karolinska Institutet) 1972
• Professor of Pharmacology ( Karolinska Institutet) 1977.

Postdoctoral experience and visits of more than one month in foreign laboratories:

Fogarty Fellowship, Dept. Medicine, Univ. California San Diego (1972-1973), Buenos Aires (1975), Denver (1982, 1986), Rockefeller Univ (1988); Southwestern University, Dallas (1995), Univ. North Carolina (1997), Univ Kobe (1998).

Professional services:

• Chairman Department of Pharmacology (1983- 1986)
• President of Nordic Pharmacological Society (1994-).
• Member IUPHAR Receptor Nomenclature and Drug Classification Committee (1994-2003);
• Chairman NC-IUPHAR committee on Purinoceptors (1989-1996)
• Chairman NC-IUPHAR committee on adenosine receptors (1996 -).
• Member of IUPHAR executive council (1995-2002).
• 1st vice president IUPHAR (1998-2002).
• Chairman IUPHAR nomination committee (2006 - ).
• Co-opted Member Nobel Committee (1987-1995; 2002-2003);
• Deputy chairman Department of Physiology and Pharmacology (2000-2001)
• Chairman Department of Physiology and Pharmacology (2001- 2005)
• Board of Royal Academy of Sciences (2008- )
• Member Nobel Assembly (2000- ).
• Member Nobel committee ( 2003 - )
• Chairman Nobel committee 2007, 2008

Academy memberships; Honors:

Academia Europea (1995- ); Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine (1996- ); Spanish Academy of Sciences (2003-); Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2003 - ); Pfizer award (Atlanta, 1983); lberta Heritage Foundation award (Edmonton, Alberta, 1985); Buntland visiting professor (Auckland, 1987); Astra Anglo-Nordic Award (British Pharmacological Society, 1994); Poulsen Award (Norwegian Pharmacological Society, 1995) Ariens Award (Dutch Pharmacological Society, 2004);Tsinghua Forum lecture (2006); Robert M. Berne Award for Life-time achievement in adenosine research (2006).

Membership in scientific advisory boards:

National Board of Drugs (1981-1989); National Board of Health and Welfare Scientific Advisory Board (1983- 2006 ); National Food Administration Scientific Advisory Board (1984- );Astra (AstraZeneca) international advisory board (1995 – 2001; 2002-2005 ), Numerous evaluation boards ( e.g. Norwegian Science Council; University of Helsinki; University of Coimbra; University of Vienna, Univ Manchester).

Editor:

Swedish Medical Journal (Medical editor 1982-1997); Acta physiologica Scandinavica ( National executive editor 1990-1994); British Journal of Pharmacology (executive sub-editor 1992-1996) ; Life Sciences (European executive editor 2000-2002; Editor-in-Chief 2005- )

Membership Editorial Boards:

Pharmacological Reviews (1987- ), Naunyn-Schmiedeberg´s Archive of Pharmacology (1988 – 1996); Fundamental and Clinical Pharmacology (1988 – 1993); Archive International de Pharmacodynamie ( 1989 – 1993); Molecular Physiology (1980 – 1984); European J. Pharmacol. (1988- 2004), Trends Pharmacol. Sci.(1987 -), J. Mol. Neurosci.(1994-), Neuropharmacology (1993 - 2005), Pharmacol. Toxicol. (1990-), Molecular Neuroscience (1995-)

Graduate Students (year of thesis):

Paul Hjemdahl (1976; Now professor in clinical pharmacology); Erik Belfrage (1978); Jan Wager (1980); Lars Gustafsson (1980; Now professor in Physiology); Alf Sollevi (1981; Now professor in Anesthesiology); Göran Jurell (1981); Anita Sydbom (1982); Bror Jonzon (1984); Thomas Kahan (1985); Thomas Bradley (1986); Marianne Wennmalm (1988); Johan Fastbom (1988); Maria Ransjö (1988); Olof Larsson (1989); Janet Ng (1989); Gabriel von Euler (1989);Marianne Dunér Engström (1990); Christer Nordstedt (1990; head preclinical research Astrazeneca, Södertälje; Now at Novartis); Ping-Sheng Hu (1991); Ingeborg van der Ploeg (1992); Anders Kvanta (1992); Pär Gerwins (1994); Nedret Altiok (1995; Now professor of Pharmacology Istambul); Björn Johansson (1996); Shao-Yu Jin (1997); Per Svenningsson (1999); Björn Kull (2000); Giulia Arslan (2000); Ulrika Ådén (2001); Gunnar Schulte (2003); Linda Halldner (2003), Stina Johansson (2007). Olga Björklund (2008), Kim Dekermendjian (2008), Ricard Nergårdh (2008), Jiangning Yang (2008).

Postdoctoral students, Guest Scientists:

Sixtus Hynie (1978); Peter Enyedi (1981); Felicita Pedata (1984); YingOu Li (1984-85); Thomas V. Dunwiddie (1982, 1986); Mervyn Maze (1986); Sek Chuen Chow (1986-87); Haibin Li (1987); Hilary Lloyd (1987); Ernö Dux (1988); Thomas V. Swanson (1988); Fiona Parkinson (1989-91); Anthony Balmfort (1990); Eva Kontny (1990-91,1993), Jean Assender (1992-93); Zhang Yu (1993); Vasili Georgiev ((1993-95, 1996); Fransisco Ciruela (1994); Mercedes Fernandez (1994); Ana Vallejo (1994); Catalin Filipineanu (1994-95); Gary de Lander (1994-95); Rodrigo Cunha (1996); Alexander Kuzmin (1997-98); Stefania Gessi (1999); Luisa Lopes (1999); Alf Berts (1999-2000); Robert F. Berman (2000); Ishar Dalmsau (2000); Nedret Altiok (2001); Cecilia Lövdahl (2001-2006); Peter Salmi (2002-2006); Elisabetta Daré (2002-2006); Ming-mei Shang (2007-2009).

Scientific publications:

502 papers published or accepted in peer-reviewed primary science journals; 169 review articles or chapters in review journals or books. Totally cited > 25,000 times. Highly cited scientist (ISI).