Harald Stenmark#
| Membership Number: | 6885 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ous-research.no/stenmark/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1971-4252 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - now Head of Dept. of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital
- 2018 - now Director, Centre for Cancer Cell Reprogramming, University of Oslo
- 2007 - now Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo
- 2004 - 2023 Visiting professor, Centre for Molecular Inflammation Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- 2016 - 2017 Acting Director, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital
- 2009 - 2016 Head of Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital
- 2007 - 2017 Director, Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, University of Oslo
- 1999 - 2003 Adjunct Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo
- 1997 - 2009 Researcher, Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital
- 1991 - 1994 Postdoctoral Fellow, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Rab GTPases
- Cancer research
- Intracellular membrane traffic
- Phosphoinositides
- Autophagy
- ESCRT proteins
- Endocytosis
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Nordic Fernström Prize (Lund University, Sweden)
- 2022 Anders Jahre’s Major Prize in Medicine (University of Oslo on behalf of the Universities in the Nordic countries)
- 2021 Fridtjof Nansen´s Award (Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters)
- 2018 Research Prize of the University of Oslo
- 2018 Advanced Grant, the European Research Council,
- 2016 Elected member of the Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2015 “Møbius” Prize for outstanding research (Research Council of Norway)
- 2014 King Olav V’s Prize for Cancer Research (the Norwegian Cancer Society)
- 2013 Research Prize of Oslo University Hospital
- 2011 Elected member of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences (EACS)
- 2010 Sir Hans Krebs Medal (Federation of European Biochemical Societies, FEBS)
- 2008 Advanced Grant, the European Research Council,
- 2004 Elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 2002 Research Prize of the Norwegian Radium Hospital
- 2002 Elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 1999 Anders Jahre’s Prize for younger medical scientists in the Nordic countries
