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Rikard Holmdahl Swedish physician and immunologist

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 moved 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 such as Rheumatoid Arthritis in rat models.[2] Rikard is an adjunct member of the Nobel Committee for physiology or medicine between 2016-2021[3] and was ranked 3rd among the top immunology scientists in Sweden in 2024.[4]

Career

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Rikard Holmdahl obtained his Doctor of Philosophy and Medical Doctor degrees at Uppsala University in 1985 and 1987, respectively.[5][1]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[1].

He became a full professor since 1993, and he is now the head of the MIR unit at Division of Immunology at Karolinska Institute (2008–present).[6] He is also serving as visiting professor at Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, at Uppsala University since March 2025[7].

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.[3] He is also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science since 2017.[8]

Awards

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  • 1994: The Göran Gustafsson prize in medicine, Swedish Royal Science Academy.[9]
  • 2002: The European Descartes prize “the most prestigious prize in medicine given by the European Community” [10]
  • 2003: The SalusAnsvar Nordic Medical prize.[11]
  • 2015: The Anders Jahre main scientific prize, "the most prestigious Nordic prize in medicine".[12]
  • 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".[13]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Rikard Holmdahl | Medarbetare". staff.ki.se. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
  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. 33 (1): 25–32. doi:10.1038/ng1058. ISSN 1546-1718. PMID 12461526. S2CID 20806067.
  3. ^ a b "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  4. ^ "World's Top Immunology Scientists: H-Index Immunology Science Ranking in Sweden". Research.com. Retrieved 2022-06-15.
  5. ^ Holmdahl, Rikard (1985). "Collagen induced arthritis : pathogenetic mechanisms and relevance for rheumatoid arthritis". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ "MIR - Research group | Karolinska Institutet". ki.se. Retrieved 2022-06-15.
  7. ^ "Holmdahl, Rikard - Uppsala universitet". www.uu.se (in Swedish). 2025-04-09. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
  8. ^ "Rikard Holmdahl". Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien. Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  9. ^ "Pristagare" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-06-22.
  10. ^ "Five years of Descartes Prize winners".
  11. ^ "Pristagare av Nordiska medicinpriset 2014". Folksam (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-06-22.
  12. ^ "Two KI researchers receive Anders Jahre's Awards for Medical Research | Karolinska Institutet Nyheter". news.ki.se. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  13. ^ "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". www.xuehua.us. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
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