Tomas Hökfelt#
| Membership Number: | 173 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://ki.se/en/people/tomhok |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2006 Professor emeritus of histology with cell biology at the Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- 1979 - 2006 Professor in histology at the Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- 1968 Assistant professor
Fields of Scholarship
- Chemical messengers in the nervous and endocrine systems
- Role of neuropeptides in pain and depression
Honours and Awards
- 1987 joint winner of the Artois-Baillet-Latour Health Prize for the study of neuropeptides
- 1988 joint winner of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research
- 1992 Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Tampere, Finland
- 1992 Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1999 Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Ferrara, Italy
- 1999 Doctor Honoris Causa at the Peking University Health Science Center, China
- 2000 Foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2000 Doctor Honoris Causa at the Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 University, France
- 2007 winner of the Grande Médaille of the French Academy of Sciences for his study of neurotransmitters
- 2012 Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences USA
- Member of the Academia Europaea
