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Olle Lindvall, MD, PhD - Executive Committee
Professor, Department of Neurology
Laboratory of Neurogenesis and Cell Therapy, Section of Restorative Neurology
Wallenberg Neuroscience Center
Lund , Sweden

Olle Lindvall received his PhD from the University of Lund in 1974 and has been affiliated with the school for more than 30 years. He is an elected member of the board of the Swedish Research Council's medical division and served for four years as the chairman of the Swedish Movement Disorder Society.

Lindvall is a member of the editorial boards of Experimental Neurology and The Lancet Neurology. In the past, he has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism and Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. He has been a reviewer for a number of publications, including Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Biotechnology, Neuron, PNAS, Journal of Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, European Journal of Neuroscience, Experimental Neurology, and Lancet.

Among the awards Lindvall has received are The Jubilee Prize from the Swedish Society of Medicine, an honorary medal from the Swedish Parkinson Association, and the Soderberg Prize from the Swedish Society of Medicine.