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Swedish molecular biologist
Björn Vennström (born 1948) is a Swedish molecular biologist. He received his Ph.D. in 1978 at
Uppsala University with a thesis on RNA and in 1993, was appointed Professor of Developmental Biology at the
Karolinska Institute . He is also a professor of molecular biology at the same institution.
[1] He was elected a member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ,
[2] was awarded the
Göran Gustafsson Prize in 1991,
[3] has served on the
Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine from 2001 to 2006, and is the Chairman of the
Nobel Assembly .
[4]
While at the
EMBL in
Heidelberg he cloned the c-erbA gene in 1984
[5] and demonstrated in 1986 that the c-erbA gene encodes a high affinity
thyroid hormone receptor .
[6]
References
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"Björn Vennström" . Karolinska Institutet. Archived from
the original on 18 April 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2012 .
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"Members" . Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 October 2012 .
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"Göran Gustafssons Prize Winners" . Göran Gustafssons Stiftelse. Archived from
the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2012 .
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"The Nobel Committee" . The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet. Retrieved 4 October 2012 .
^ Spurr NK, Solomon E, Jansson M, Sheer D, Goodfellow PN, Bodmer WF, Vennström B (1984).
"Chromosomal localisation of the human homologues to the oncogenes erbA and B" . EMBO J . 3 (1): 159–63.
doi :
10.1002/j.1460-2075.1984.tb01777.x .
PMC
557313 .
PMID
6323162 .
^ Sap J, Muñoz A, Damm K, Goldberg Y, Ghysdael J, Leutz A, Beug H, Vennström B (1986). "The c-erb-A protein is a high-affinity receptor for thyroid hormone". Nature . 324 (6098): 635–40.
doi :
10.1038/324635a0 .
PMID
2879242 .
S2CID
4353175 .