Carl Lennart Philipson (July 16, 1929 – June 26, 2011) was a Swedish virologist and professor at Karolinska Institute. He is well known for his research in respiratory viruses and his direction over several research institutions.
He did two sabbaticals in the United States. In 1971 in the laboratory of Jim Darnell, and in 1977 in the laboratory of David Baltimore.[2]
In 1967, he was appointed director of the Wallenberg Laboratory in Sweden. In 1982, he was appointed to be the second director general of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), which he ran until 1993.[3] He resigned after being unable to convince the council to increase the funding by 15-20% each year.[1] At that point, he returned to the US to be the founding director of the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. After five years, he returned to Sweden to join the Karolinska Institute, where he remained until his death in 2011.[2]
In 2015, EMBL established the Lennart Philipson Award for translational research.[5] He and his wife founded the Malin and Lennart Philipson Foundation. It is now run by his widow, and awards prizes to promising graduate students and postdocs.[6]
Notes and referencesedit
^ abPettersson, U. (2011). "Lennart Philipson: A fighter is gone". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (47): 18875. Bibcode:2011PNAS..10818875P. doi:10.1073/pnas.1116859108. PMC3223467. PMID 22106290.
^ abcBaltimore, D (2011). "Lennart Philipson (1929–2011): A Warrior Has Passed". PLOS Biology. 9 (9): e1001153. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001153. PMC3176751.
^Kai Simons, Iain W. Mattaj (2011): Lennart Philipson (1929−2011).Science. 333 (6043), pp. 711, doi:10.1126/science.1210990.
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