Anders Björklund#
Membership Number: | 675 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 1989 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1996 Professor and Section Chief at Wallenberg Neuroscience Center at Lund University
- 1983 Professor of Histology at Lund University
- 1973 - 1983 Associate Prof. of Histology at Lund University
- 1971 - 1972 Docent at Lund University
- 1969 - 1971 Research associate at Lund University
- 1966 - 1969 Assistant teacher at Lund University
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuroanatomy
- Neuronal regeneration
- Cell transplantation
- Gene transfer
- Repair in the central nervous system
Honours and Awards
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Turin, Italy 1987
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 1989
- Master of Science, University of Oxford, 1989
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1989
- Member of the Academia Europaea, 1989
- President of the European Neuroscience Association 1996–1998
- Lifetime Fellow of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, UK since 1999
- The Wakeman Award from Duke University, NC, USA, 1984 (with L Olson and U Stenevi)
- Brooks Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School, November 1986
- Presidential Lecturer, Society for Neuroscence annual meeting, Toronto, 1988
- Presidential Lecturer, Eruropean Neuroscience Association meeting, Turin, 1989
- The Zulch Prize from the Max-Planck Society, Germany, 1990 (with Lars Olson)
- The Göran Gustafsson Prize and Award from the Swedish Academy of Sciences,1990The IPSEN Prize in Neuronal Plasticity from the IPSEN Foundation, Paris, 1990 (with Albert Aguayo and Fred H. Gage)
- The International Cajal Award from the Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain, 1991
- The Charles A. Dana Award from the Dana Foundation, New York, 1992 (with Fred H. Gage)
- Lars Leksell Lecturer, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1992
- Decade of the Brain Lecturer, American Academy of Neurology, San Diego, 1992
- The Jubilee Medal Prize from the Swedish Society for Medicine, Stockholm, 1993
- The Koester Memorial Lectureship and Award, University of Zürich, Switzerland, 1995
- Decade of the Brain Lecture, Brain Research Association, London, 1995
- The Anders Jahre Prize for Medical Research from Oslo University, Norway, 1995 (with Lars Olson)
- The Stanley Fahn Lecturer, The Movement Disorders Society Meeting, New York, 1998
- The Söderberg Prize for Medical Research from the Swedish Society for Medicine, Stockholm, 2000 (with Olle Lindvall)
- William H. Sweet Lecturer, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, October 2002
- Presidential Lecturer, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Orlando, Fla, Nov. 2002
- The Van Wagenen Lecture, American Association for Neurological Surgeons Annual meeting, Orlando Fla. May 2004
- The Charles Sherrington Lecture, University of Liverpool, Nov 23, 2004
- The Ragnar Granit Lecture in Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Nov. 25, 2004
- The Wendell JS Krieg Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cajal Club, June 2006
- Lundbeck Foundation Nordic Award for Outstanding Research, Copenhagen, March 2007
- The Sven Berggren Prize from the Royal Physiographic Society, Lund, October 2008
- The Van Wagenen Lecture, American Association for Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, San Diego,May 2009
- The Robert A Pritzker Prize from the Michael J Fox Foundation, June 2011
- The Eric K Fernstrom Nordic Prize from Lund University, November 2011