Thomas Perlmann#
| Membership Number: | 6205 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://perlmannlab.org |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4821-8036 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly and Nobel Committee (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 2007 - 2017 Director, The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Stockholm Branch
- 2003 - 2006 Chairman, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet
- 2001 - present Professor of Molecular Developmental Biology, Karolinska Institutet
- 1996 - 2017 Group leader, The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Stockholm
- 1993 - 1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet
- 1991 - 1993 Research Associate (postdoc), Salk Institute, with Professor Ronald M. Evans
Fields of Scholarship
- Developmental biology
- Regenerative medicine
- Transcription
- Parkinson's disease
- Neuroscience
- Dopamine neuron function and maintenance
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Torsten Söderberg Academy Professor in Medicine
- 2016 Hilda and Alfred Eriksson’s prize
- 2011 Nicholson Award and Lecturer at Rockefeller University
- 2008 Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Umesono Lecturer, The Salk Institute, San Diego
- 2006 Member of the Nobel Assembly, Karolinska Institutet
- 2003 Member, European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1999 Göran Gustafsson Prize in Molecular Biology
- 1997 Eric K. Fernström, Young Investigator Prize
