Patrik Ernfors, PhD

Ernfors currently works at the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology at the Karolinska Institute, where he is also a lecturer on cellular structure and function. He also held a professorial chair in developmental biology at Stockholm University and has been a professor of tissue biology and molecular and developmental biology at the Karolinska Institute. Ernfors is an ad hoc reviewer for numerous journals, including Nature, The Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Neuroscience, Science, and Nature Medicine. Among the awards he has received are the Göran Gustafssons Prize in Medicine and the Fernströms Prize in Medicine, both in 2000.