| MD,
December 14, 1963, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm |
| Dissertation
(equivalent to PhD): May 19, 1964, at Karolinska Institutet,
Stockholm |
| Docent
of Medicine, September 24, 1964 at Karolinska Institutet,
Stockholm |
Positions
|
| 1959-1966 |
Temporary
lecturer positions in the Department of Virus Research
at Karolinska Institutet |
| 1966-1972 |
Career
award from the Swedish Cancer Society |
| 1972-1997 |
Professor
of Virology, Karolinska Institutet |
| 1972-1990 |
Chairman
of the Department of Virology, Karolinska Institutet |
| 1990-1996 |
Dean
of the Medical Faculty of Karolinska Institutet |
| 1997-2003 |
Permanent
Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Professor |
Various appointments
|
| 1976-1989 |
State
Controller of Viral Vaccines in Sweden |
| 1975-1980 |
Member
of the Nobel Committee, Karolinska Institutet (Vice
Chairman 1979-1980) |
1973-1974,
1980-1990,
1991-1993 |
Adjunct
member of the Nobel Committee, Karolinska Institutet |
| 1990 |
Chairman
of the Nobel Assembly |
| 1981-1987 |
Vice
chairman (1981-1984) and chairman (1984-1987) of the
Division of Virology of the International Union of Microbiological
Societies (member of the Board of IUMS during these
years) |
| 1975-1995 |
Adviser
to the World Health Organization |
| 1970-1982 |
Member
of the Executive Committee for Taxonomy of Viruses |
| 1969-1985 |
Member
of the Granting Committee of the Swedish Cancer Society,
vice chairman 1977-1980 |
| 1979-1985 |
Chairman,
Information Committee, Swedish Cancer Society |
| 1983-1984 |
Chairman
of the Board for the Section of Medical Microbiology
of the Swedish Society of Medical Sciences |
| 1979-1983 |
Chairman
of the Granting Committee of the National Society for
Handicapped Individuals |
| 1978-1987 |
Member
of the Grants Committee for Prenatal Research |
| 1981-1985 |
Member
of the Grants Committee of the Swedish Society of Medical
Sciences |
| 1983-1988 |
Member
of the Grants Committee for Microbiology of the Swedish
Medical Research Council |
| 1980-1985 |
Member
of the Board of King Gustav V Jubilee Fund |
| 1983-1993 |
Member
of the Board of the National Bacteriological Laboratory |
| 1987-1990 |
Member
of the Board of KabiVitrum Co |
| 1987-1990 |
Member
of the Board of KabiGen |
| 1990-1994 |
Member
of the Board of Kabi Pharmacia |
| 1992-1995 |
Member
of the Board of Pharmacia Biotech Co |
| 1987-1991 |
Chairman
of the Scientific Advisory Group of KabiGen |
| 1980-1994 |
Member
(1980-83) and chairman (1987-1994) of the Swedish Hybrid-DNA
Delegation |
| 1981-1988 |
Member
of the Advisory Committee on Vaccines of the National
Health Board |
| 1974-1997 |
Member
of the Society for General Virology, UK |
| 1974-1997 |
Member
of the American Society for Microbiology, USA |
| 1987-1993 |
Member
of the American Society of Virology |
| 1976-1987 |
Editor
of Archives of Virology |
| 1978-1986 |
Editor
of Medical Microbiology and Immunology |
| 1980-1997 |
Member
of the Advisory Board for J Virol, J Gen Virol, J Med
Virol, Scand J Immunol, Vaccines and Advanced Virus
Research |
| 1984-1997 |
Visiting
Adjunct Professor at The Scripps Research Institute,
La Jolla, CA, USA |
| 1990-2009 |
Member, Scientific Council of the Paul Ehrlich Foundation |
| 1997- |
Visiting
Scholar at The Neuroscience Institute, La Jolla, CA,
USA |
| 1997-2003 |
Chairman
of the Board of the Sven Hedin Foundation |
| 1990- |
Member
of the Scientific Council of the Paul Ehrlich Foundation |
| 1997-2003 |
Member
of the Board of the Nobel Foundation |
| 1998-2004 |
Member
of the Board of Karlstad University |
| 1999-2003 |
Chairman
of the Rolf Schock Foundation |
| 2000-2003 |
Chairman
of the Science Education Committee at the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences |
| 2001- |
Member of the Board of the Tobias Foundation |
| 2003-2006 |
Member
of the Board of Advisors of the Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| 2003- |
Member
of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore,
MD, USA |
| 2003- |
Member
of the Prize Committee of the Aristeio Bodossaki Foundation |
| 2003- |
Member of the Board of the Postkod Foundation |
| 2005- |
Trustee of the Boards of the J. Craig Venter Institute and Foundation (since 2006 one Institute). Since 2007 Vice Chairman |
| 2006-2008 |
Scientific Advisor to AlphaHelix Molecular Diagnostics AB, Uppsala, Sweden |
| 2006- |
Founding
father and Chairman of the Science Board of the Institute Para Limes, Warnsveld,
The Netherlands |
| 2007- |
Trustee
of the Gustaf's V 80 Years Foundation |
Special appointment
|
| 2001- |
Lord
Chamberlain in Waiting at the Royal Swedish Court |
Selected recent international advisor commitments
|
| 2000 |
Advisor
to the Science Council of Japan, Tokyo |
| 2000 |
Member,
representing IAP, of the ICSU coordinated stake holder
group for Science and Technology at PrepCom II, New
York and PrepCom IV, Bali for WSSD |
| 2002 |
External
Reviewer of the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science,
Tokyo |
Membership in learned societies
|
| 1981 |
Member
of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
| 1996 |
Extraordinary
Honorary Member of the National Academy of Medicine
in Buenos Aires |
| 1999 |
Member
of Academia Europea |
| 2000 |
Member
of American Philosophical Society |
| 2000 |
Honorary
Foreign Member of the Korean Academy of Science and
Technology |
Honours
|
| Master
of Lecturing, Karolinska Institutet, 1972 |
| Fernström's
prize for young promising scientists, 1981 |
| Johan
von Höpken Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences 2003 |
| Carl
XVI Gustaf's Medal of the 12th Size with the Band of the Seraphim Order 2005 |
| Order
of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from the Emperor of Japan 2006 |