Karl Tryggvason
Karl Tryggvason (born March 17, 1947) is an Icelandic medical researcher.Karl Tryggvason was born in Reykjavik. He trained as a medical doctor at Finland's University of Oulu, where he graduated with an M.D. in 1975 and with a Ph.D. in 1977 with doctoral dissertation ''Glomeruli and their basement membrane in the normal human kidney and in congenital nephrotic syndrome of the Finnish type''. At the University of Oulu for the academic years from 1974 to 1978 and in 1979, he was an assistant in the medical biochemistry department. For the academic year 1978–1979 he was a visiting associate at the NIH's National Institute of Dental Research (now called the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research) in Bethesda, Maryland. For the academic year 1979–1980 he was an assistant of clinical chemistry in the resident program of the University Hospital of Oulu. For the academic year 1983–1984 he was a visiting associate professor of biochemistry and clinical pathology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. From 1986 to 1989 he was a senior investigator in the Academy of Finland. From 1987 to 1995 he was a professor of biochemistry and chair of the biochemistry department of the University of Oulu's Faculty of Science — during those year he was also from 1989 to 1994 a research professor at The Finnish Cancer Institute (located the University of Oulu). Karl Tryggvason was appointed in 1994 a professor of medical chemistry in the Karolinska Institute's Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and in 2012 the Tanoto Professor in Diabetes Research at Singapore's Duke–NUS Medical School. He is a member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute as a member of the Nobel Committee for physiology and medicine. He was in 1986 one of the founders of Biocenter Oulu, Finland's first elite center in biomedical research, which became a biomedical research model for other Finnish universities.
His research focuses on the basement membranes, which interface between the overlying epithelial tissues and the underlying connective tissue. The research group under his leadership has identified and developed diagnostics for five serious genetic diseases, caused by mutations in genes for proteins that build up the human body's basement membrane.
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Karl Tryggvason is the author or co-author of more than 400 research articles. In 2008 he was the co-founder of BioLamina AB, a Swedish biotechnology company that produces laminins for cell therapy and research in cell biology.
He was elected in 1992 a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and was appointed in 2001 an Honorary Doctor of the University of Iceland. He received in 1995 the University of Oulu's Professor Pentti Kaiser Award, in 2000 the American Society of Nephrology's Homer W. Smith Award, and in 2002 the ''Fondation Louis-Jeantet'''s Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine. In 2005 he was elected a member of Academia Europaea and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Jenny Hulkko, Jaakko Patrakka, Mark Lal, Karl Tryggvason, Kjell Hultenby, Annika WernersonGet full text
Published 2014-09-01
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5by Dawn M E Bowdish, Kaori Sakamoto, Mi-Jeong Kim, Mariliis Kroos, Subhankar Mukhopadhyay, Cynthia A Leifer, Karl Tryggvason, Siamon Gordon, David G RussellGet full text
Published 2009-06-01
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7by Ljubica Perisic, Patricia Q Rodriguez, Kjell Hultenby, Ying Sun, Mark Lal, Christer Betsholtz, Mathias Uhlén, Annika Wernerson, Ulf Hedin, Timo Pikkarainen, Karl Tryggvason, Jaakko PatrakkaGet full text
Published 2015-01-01
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8by Ljubica Perisic, Patricia Q Rodriguez, Kjell Hultenby, Ying Sun, Mark Lal, Christer Betsholtz, Mathias Uhlén, Annika Wernerson, Ulf Hedin, Timo Pikkarainen, Karl Tryggvason, Jaakko PatrakkaGet full text
Published 2015-01-01
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9by Monica Suryana Tjin, Alvin Wen Choong Chua, Aida Moreno-Moral, Li Yen Chong, Po Yin Tang, Nathan Peter Harmston, Zuhua Cai, Enrico Petretto, Bien Keem Tan, Karl TryggvasonGet full text
Published 2018-10-01
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10by Iulian I Oprea, Joana R Viola, Pedro M D Moreno, Oscar E Simonson, Sergey Rodin, Nathalie Teller, Karl Tryggvason, Karin E Lundin, Leonard Girnita, Carl Inge Edvard SmithGet full text
Published 2014-01-01
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11by Jianhua Mao, Dayan Wang, Parikka Mataleena, Bing He, Dadi Niu, Kan Katayama, Xiangjun Xu, Juha Rm Ojala, Wenjing Wang, Qiang Shu, Lizhong Du, Aimin Liu, Timo Pikkarainen, Jaakko Patrakka, Karl TryggvasonGet full text
Published 2013-01-01
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12by Marcella K Vaicik, Jill Thyboll Kortesmaa, Sofia Movérare-Skrtic, Jarkko Kortesmaa, Raija Soininen, Göran Bergström, Claes Ohlsson, Li Yen Chong, Björn Rozell, Margo Emont, Ronald N Cohen, Eric M Brey, Karl TryggvasonGet full text
Published 2014-01-01
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13by Lynn Yap, Jiong-Wei Wang, Aida Moreno-Moral, Li Yen Chong, Yi Sun, Nathan Harmston, Xiaoyuan Wang, Suet Yen Chong, Miina K. Öhman, Heming Wei, Ralph Bunte, Sujoy Gosh, Stuart Cook, Outi Hovatta, Dominique P.V. de Kleijn, Enrico Petretto, Karl TryggvasonGet full text
Published 2019-03-01
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14by Lynn Yap, Jiong-Wei Wang, Aida Moreno-Moral, Li Yen Chong, Yi Sun, Nathan Harmston, Xiaoyuan Wang, Suet Yen Chong, Konstantinos Vanezis, Miina K. Öhman, Heming Wei, Ralph Bunte, Sujoy Gosh, Stuart Cook, Outi Hovatta, Dominique P.V. de Kleijn, Enrico Petretto, Karl TryggvasonGet full text
Published 2020-05-01
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15by Swee Sen Kwek, Satoru Watanabe, Kuan Rong Chan, Eugenia Z. Ong, Hwee Cheng Tan, Wy Ching Ng, Mien T. X. Nguyen, Esther S. Gan, Summer L. Zhang, Kitti W. K. Chan, Jun Hao Tan, October M. Sessions, Menchie Manuel, Julien Pompon, Camillus Chua, Sharifah Hazirah, Karl Tryggvason, Subhash G. Vasudevan, Eng Eong OoiGet full text
Published 2018-03-01
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16by Christine-Maria Horejs, Jean-Philippe St-Pierre, Juha R. M. Ojala, Joseph A. M. Steele, Patricia Barros da Silva, Angela Rynne-Vidal, Stephanie A. Maynard, Catherine S. Hansel, Clara Rodríguez-Fernández, Manuel M. Mazo, Amanda Y. F. You, Alex J. Wang, Thomas von Erlach, Karl Tryggvason, Manuel López-Cabrera, Molly M. StevensGet full text
Published 2017-06-01
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17by Agneta Månsson-Broberg, Sergey Rodin, Ivana Bulatovic, Cristián Ibarra, Marie Löfling, Rami Genead, Eva Wärdell, Ulrika Felldin, Carl Granath, Evren Alici, Katarina Le Blanc, C.I. Edvard Smith, Alena Salašová, Magnus Westgren, Erik Sundström, Per Uhlén, Ernest Arenas, Christer Sylvén, Karl Tryggvason, Matthias Corbascio, Oscar E. Simonson, Cecilia Österholm, Karl-Henrik GrinnemoGet full text
Published 2016-04-01
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18by Niina Sandholm, Rany M Salem, Amy Jayne McKnight, Eoin P Brennan, Carol Forsblom, Tamara Isakova, Gareth J McKay, Winfred W Williams, Denise M Sadlier, Ville-Petteri Mäkinen, Elizabeth J Swan, Cameron Palmer, Andrew P Boright, Emma Ahlqvist, Harshal A Deshmukh, Benjamin J Keller, Huateng Huang, Aila J Ahola, Emma Fagerholm, Daniel Gordin, Valma Harjutsalo, Bing He, Outi Heikkilä, Kustaa Hietala, Janne Kytö, Päivi Lahermo, Markku Lehto, Raija Lithovius, Anne-May Osterholm, Maija Parkkonen, Janne Pitkäniemi, Milla Rosengård-Bärlund, Markku Saraheimo, Cinzia Sarti, Jenny Söderlund, Aino Soro-Paavonen, Anna Syreeni, Lena M Thorn, Heikki Tikkanen, Nina Tolonen, Karl Tryggvason, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Johan Wadén, Geoffrey V Gill, Sarah Prior, Candace Guiducci, Daniel B Mirel, Andrew Taylor, S Mohsen Hosseini, DCCT/EDIC Research Group, Hans-Henrik Parving, Peter Rossing, Lise Tarnow, Claes Ladenvall, François Alhenc-Gelas, Pierre Lefebvre, Vincent Rigalleau, Ronan Roussel, David-Alexandre Tregouet, Anna Maestroni, Silvia Maestroni, Henrik Falhammar, Tianwei Gu, Anna Möllsten, Danut Cimponeriu, Mihai Ioana, Maria Mota, Eugen Mota, Cristian Serafinceanu, Monica Stavarachi, Robert L Hanson, Robert G Nelson, Matthias Kretzler, Helen M Colhoun, Nicolae Mircea Panduru, Harvest F Gu, Kerstin Brismar, Gianpaolo Zerbini, Samy Hadjadj, Michel Marre, Leif Groop, Maria Lajer, Shelley B Bull, Daryl Waggott, Andrew D Paterson, David A Savage, Stephen C Bain, Finian Martin, Joel N Hirschhorn, Catherine Godson, Jose C Florez, Per-Henrik Groop, Alexander P MaxwellGet full text
Published 2012-09-01
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