Jan Nedergaard

Jan Nedergaard is a physiologist, academic, and researcher. He is Professor of Physiology at the Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University.

Nedergaard's research revolves around elucidating the function and physiological importance of brown adipose tissue, as well as the importance of thermoneutrality in translating mouse data to human conditions. He has authored/co-authored 204 primary articles and 134 reviews and book chapters, with 15 original articles as first author and 117 as corresponding senior author, and was one of 9 scientists at Stockholm University and one of 25 scientists in Sweden who were named on the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list. His primary publications have appeared in journals such as ''Nature Medicine'', ''Nature Communications'', ''Cell Metabolism'', ''Nature Metabolism'', ''The EMBO Journal'', ''American Journal of Physiology'', ''BBA Bioenergetics'' and ''Biochimie''.

Nedergaard is a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and is a recipient of the Science Award for Obesity Research, The Friedrich Wassermann Award, and Prize for Scientific Review Writing. Provided by Wikipedia