Sten Orrenius#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 424 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Sten Orrenius passed away April 27, 2020.
Positions Held
- 2004 Professor emeritus, Karolinska Institutet
- 1984 - 2004 Professor of Toxicology, Karolinska Institutet
- 1971 - 1984 Professor of Forensic Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
Fields of Scholarship
- Pathology
- Toxicology
- Toxicity and cell death mechanisms
Honours and Awards
- Honorary memberships in the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Society of Toxicology (USA), the Italian and Swedish Societies of Toxicology
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
- Honorary doctorates from the Universities of Stockholm, Turin, Konstanz, Buenos Aires, Paris V and Milan
- Merit Award by EUROTOX, the Association of European Toxicologists and Societies of Toxicology, in 1997
- Recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Lifetime Toxicology Scholar Award by the Society of Toxicology (USA)
- 2003 Recipient of the first ECDO Career Award for Excellence in Cell Death Research by the European Cell Death Organization
