Bengt Fadeel#
| Membership Number: | 6866 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | https://ki.se/en/people/bengt-fadeel |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5559-8482 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - now Vice Chairman, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- 2010 - now Full Professor of Medical Inflammation Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- 2009 - now Head of Unit, Molecular Toxicology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Stockholm
- 2009 - 2013 Vice Chairman, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- 2010 - 2015 Senior Investigator in Inflammation Research [awarded by the Swedish Research Council]
- 2008 - 2009 Senior Researcher in Molecular Toxicology, Institute of Environmental Medicine
- 2004 - 2007 Junior Research Position (Swedish Research Council), Institute of Environmental Medicine
- 2004 Qualified as Docent in Toxicology [equivalent to habilitation]], Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- 2001 - 2003 Post doc, Swedish Society for Medical Research (SSMF), Institute of Environmental Medicine
- 1999 - 2001 Research position/clinical internship, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet
- 1999 Ph.D. (medical sciences/toxicology), Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
- 1997 M.D., Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm [enrolled in the 10-year M.D.-Ph.D. program 1989-1999]
- 1985 - 1987 Graduated summa cum laude at Katedralskolan in Lund [this was followed by military service]
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanisms of cell death
- Systems biology approaches to understand and predict toxicity
- Environmental and health impacts of engineered nanomaterials
Honours and Awards
- 2003 Recipient of the Alvarenga Prize (2003), Swedish Medical Society [awarded since 1892]
- 2003 Awarded a national 4-year Junior Research Position, Swedish Research Council
- 2005 - 2008 Received a Program Grant by the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)
- Awarded a 6-year Senior Investigator Award/position, Cancerfonden (2009) [declined]
- 2009 Awarded a 6-year Senior Investigator Award/position, Swedish Research Council
- 2011 Environmental Medicine Prize from the Swedish Cancer and Allergy Foundation
- 2012 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (ATS) in the United States
- 2011 - 2016 Foreign Adjunct Prof. Environmental & Occupational Health, Univ. of Pittsburgh
