Rikard Holmdahl Explained

Rikard Holmdahl is a Swedish physician and immunologist. He was appointed as a full professor and the head of Medical Inflammation Research (MIR) unit at Lund University in 1993. In 2008, Rikard and his whole research group were recruited to Karolinska Institute.^[1] His team was the first to discover and positionally clone a single nucleotide polymorphism at the Ncf1 gene causing susceptibility to autoimmune diseases in rat models.^[2] Rikard was an adjunct member of the Nobel Committee for physiology or medicine between 2016 and 2021, and was ranked 2nd among the top immunology scientists in Sweden in 2021.^[3]

Career

Rikard Holmdahl obtained his Doctor of Philosophy and Medical Doctor degrees at Uppsala University in 1985 and 1987, respectively.^[4] After his clinical residency training during 1988-1989, he started his research fellowship and was promoted as Associate Professor at Swedish Medical Research Council in 1990.

He became a full professor since 1993, and he is now the head of the MIR Division at Karolinska Institute (2008–present).^[5] He was a member of the Nobel Assembly during 2014–2021 and an adjunct member of the Nobel committee for physiology or medicine during 2016–2021.^[6] He is also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science since 2017.^[7]

Awards

• 1994: The Göran Gustafsson prize in medicine, Swedish Royal Science Academy.^[8]
• 2002: The European Descartes prize “the most prestigious prize in medicine given by the European Community” ^[9]
• 2003: The SalusAnsvar Nordic Medical prize.^[10]
• 2015: The Anders Jahre main scientific prize, "the most prestigious Nordic prize in medicine".^[11]
• 2015: The Yangtze River Scholar Award, "the highest academic award issued to an individual in higher education by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China".^[12]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rikard Holmdahl Medarbetare . 2022-06-21 . staff.ki.se . en.
2. Olofsson . Peter . Holmberg . Jens . Tordsson . Jesper . Lu . Shemin . Åkerström . Bo . Holmdahl . Rikard . January 2003 . Positional identification of Ncf1 as a gene that regulates arthritis severity in rats . Nature Genetics . en . 33 . 1 . 25–32 . 10.1038/ng1058 . 12461526 . 20806067 . 1546-1718.
3. Web site: World's Top Immunology Scientists: H-Index Immunology Science Ranking in Sweden . 2022-06-15 . Research.com . en.
4. Holmdahl . Rikard . 1985 . Collagen induced arthritis : pathogenetic mechanisms and relevance for rheumatoid arthritis .
5. Web site: MIR - Research group Karolinska Institutet . 2022-06-15 . ki.se . en.
6. Web site: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018. 2022-02-14. NobelPrize.org. en-US.
7. Web site: Rikard Holmdahl . 2022-07-08 . Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien . en-GB.
8. Web site: Pristagare . 2022-06-22 . sv-SE.
9. Web site: Five years of Descartes Prize winners .
10. Web site: Pristagare av Nordiska medicinpriset 2014 . 2022-06-22 . Folksam . sv.
11. Web site: Two KI researchers receive Anders Jahre's Awards for Medical Research Karolinska Institutet Nyheter . 2022-02-14 . news.ki.se . en.
12. Web site: 教育部关于公布2015年度"长江学者奖励计划"入选名单的通知 - 雪花新闻 . 2022-06-22 . www.xuehua.us.