The Karolinska Institute or Karolinska institutet is a medical university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 1810.

It is the largest single institution of higher education in medicine in the world. A committee of the institute appoints the laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Karolinska University Hospital is associated with the university as a teaching hospital. It is one of Sweden's largest centres for training and research, accounting for 30 percent of the medical training and 40 percent of the medical academic research conducted nationwide.

The institute is a member of the League of European Research Universities.

Notable alumni or faculty

• Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848; professor at KI), invented modern chemical notation and is considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry; discoverer of the elements silicon, selenium, thorium, and cerium.
• Carl Gustaf Mosander (1792-1858; student of Berzelius, his successor 1836), chemist, discoverer of the elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium.
• Hugo Theorell (1903-1982), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1955
• Torsten Wiesel (1924-), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1981
• Pehr Edman (1916-1977), chemist (Med. dr 1946). Cf. Edman degradation
• Lars Leksell (1907-1986), physician, inventor of radiosurgery and the Gamma Knife.
• Sune Bergström (1916-2004), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 (with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John Robert Vane).
• Bengt I. Samuelsson (b. 1934), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 (with Sune Bergström and John Robert Vane).
• Ragnar Granit (1900-1991), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1967.
• Göran Liljestrand (1886-1968), physiologist and pharmacologist.
• Ulf von Euler (1905-1983), physiologist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1970.

See also

• Stockholm University
• Royal Institute of Technology
• Stockholm School of Economics

• List of universities in Sweden

External links

• Karolinska Institutet - Official site