Anders Björklund#

Present and Previous Positions

• 1996 Professor and Section Chief at Wallenberg Neuroscience Center at Lund University
• 1983 Professor of Histology at Lund University
• 1973 - 1983 Associate Prof. of Histology at Lund University
• 1971 - 1972 Docent at Lund University
• 1969 - 1971 Research associate at Lund University
• 1966 - 1969 Assistant teacher at Lund University

• Neuroanatomy
• Neuronal regeneration
• Cell transplantation
• Gene transfer
• Repair in the central nervous system

• Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Turin, Italy 1987
• Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 1989
• Master of Science, University of Oxford, 1989
• Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1989
• Member of the Academia Europaea, 1989
• President of the European Neuroscience Association 1996–1998
• Lifetime Fellow of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, UK since 1999
• The Wakeman Award from Duke University, NC, USA, 1984 (with L Olson and U Stenevi)
• Brooks Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School, November 1986
• Presidential Lecturer, Society for Neuroscence annual meeting, Toronto, 1988
• Presidential Lecturer, Eruropean Neuroscience Association meeting, Turin, 1989
• The Zulch Prize from the Max-Planck Society, Germany, 1990 (with Lars Olson)
• The Göran Gustafsson Prize and Award from the Swedish Academy of Sciences,1990The IPSEN Prize in Neuronal Plasticity from the IPSEN Foundation, Paris, 1990 (with Albert Aguayo and Fred H. Gage)
• The International Cajal Award from the Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain, 1991
• The Charles A. Dana Award from the Dana Foundation, New York, 1992 (with Fred H. Gage)
• Lars Leksell Lecturer, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1992
• Decade of the Brain Lecturer, American Academy of Neurology, San Diego, 1992
• The Jubilee Medal Prize from the Swedish Society for Medicine, Stockholm, 1993
• The Koester Memorial Lectureship and Award, University of Zürich, Switzerland, 1995
• Decade of the Brain Lecture, Brain Research Association, London, 1995
• The Anders Jahre Prize for Medical Research from Oslo University, Norway, 1995 (with Lars Olson)
• The Stanley Fahn Lecturer, The Movement Disorders Society Meeting, New York, 1998
• The Söderberg Prize for Medical Research from the Swedish Society for Medicine, Stockholm, 2000 (with Olle Lindvall)
• William H. Sweet Lecturer, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, October 2002
• Presidential Lecturer, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Orlando, Fla, Nov. 2002
• The Van Wagenen Lecture, American Association for Neurological Surgeons Annual meeting, Orlando Fla. May 2004
• The Charles Sherrington Lecture, University of Liverpool, Nov 23, 2004
• The Ragnar Granit Lecture in Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Nov. 25, 2004
• The Wendell JS Krieg Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cajal Club, June 2006
• Lundbeck Foundation Nordic Award for Outstanding Research, Copenhagen, March 2007
• The Sven Berggren Prize from the Royal Physiographic Society, Lund, October 2008
• The Van Wagenen Lecture, American Association for Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, San Diego,May 2009
• The Robert A Pritzker Prize from the Michael J Fox Foundation, June 2011
• The Eric K Fernstrom Nordic Prize from Lund University, November 2011

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