Lena Claesson-Welsh#
| Membership Number: | 4305 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.igp.uu.se/forskning/vaskularbiologi/lena-claesson-welsh |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1997 - present Professor in Medical Biochemistry, Uppsala University
- 1992 - 1996 Associate member, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (Uppsala Branch)
- 1986 - 1992 Assistant member, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (Uppsala Branch)
- 1986 - 1990 Postdoc, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (Uppsala Branch)
- 1984 - 1986 Postdoc, Dept. of Virology, University of Chicago, USA
- 1981 - 1984 PhD student, Dept. of Cell Research, Uppsala University
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular mechanisms in angiogenesis
- Angiogenic growth factors
- Signal transduction
- Tumor vascularization
- Inflammation
- Imaging by confocal, multiphoton and electron microscopy
Honours and Awards
- 2014 The Rudbeck Award by the Uppsala Medical Society
- 2009 Award “Wallenberg Scholar” by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation
- 2003 Elected member of the Royal Swedish Science Academy
- 2001 The Jubilee award by the Swedish Society of Medicine
- 1998 Göran Gustafsson Foundation award in Medicine
- 1996 Anders Jahre's award for younger scientist
- 1995 The Svedberg award, by the Swedish society for Biochem. Mol. Biol.
- 1995 The Erik K. Fernström award, by the Uppsala University Medical Faculty
