Kjell Fuxe
Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
Sweden
Biography
Kjell Fuxe is a Professor of Histology at Karolinska Institutet since 1979. He was the Member of Nobel Assembly from 1986-2005. He achieved his Honorary Doctorates at the Universities of Barcelona, Ferrara, Malaga, at Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, at Marquis Guiseppe Scicluna International University Foundation and at the Albert Einstein International Academy Foundation. He has received a significant number of awards and published over 1500 papers in neuroscience. 1209 of them are found in Pubmed. His major achievements involve pioneering work on central monoamine neurons, the existence of volume transmission, receptor-receptor interactions in heteroreceptor complexes and in neuro-endocrinology and neuro-psychopharmacology. Kjell Fuxe is a Professor of Histology at Karolinska Institutet since 1979. He was the Member of Nobel Assembly from 1986-2005. He achieved his Honorary Doctorates at the Universities of Barcelona, Ferrara, Malaga, at Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, at Marquis Guiseppe Scicluna International University Foundation and at the Albert Einstein International Academy Foundation. He has received a significant number of awards and published over 1500 papers in neuroscience. 1209 of them are found in Pubmed. His major achievements involve pioneering work on central monoamine neurons, the existence of volume transmission, receptor-receptor interactions in heteroreceptor complexes and in neuro-endocrinology and neuro-psychopharmacology.
Research Interest
Parkinson’s disease
