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News 2008-11-14
 

Creative researchers in medicine and humanities elected to the Academy

On 12 November three prominent Swedish researchers were elected to the Academy: Ann-Mari Svennerholm, Professor in Microbiology and Immunology, Thomas Perlman, Professor of Molecular Development Biology and Arne Jarrick, Professor of History.

Class for Medical Sciences
Ann-Mari Svennerholm
, professor and head of Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg



Thomas Perlman, professor of Molecular Development Biology at Stockholm Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR), Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Solna

Thomas Perlman, Karolinska Institutet


Class for humanities and for outstanding services to science
Arne Jarrick, professor of History at Department of History, Stockholm University

Arne Jarrick, Stockholm University
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