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CURRICULUM VITAE

Surnamne: Norrby
First names: Erling Carl Jacob
Born: August 28, 1937, in Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality: Swedish
Family status: Married. Three children, born 1965, 1966, 1968

Examinations

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
Updated 2009-04-21