Peter Arner

Biography

Peter Arner was born in Bromma in 1944, studied medicine at Karolinska Institutet and became a registered doctor in 1971. He is clinically educated at Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, and gained his specialist qualification in internal medicine 1977 and in endocrinology in 1992. He graduated in medicine in 1976 and became a professor at Karolinska Institutet 1978 and was a visiting professor for two years at Rochester University, New York, USA. After returning home he has been the Department of Medicine, Huddinge faithful.

Research Interest

Peter Arner has primarily worked with experimental and clinical research on how fat metabolism is regulated in humans and specifically devoted to the functioning of the fat tissue. He has studied how the fat cells and its genes control this at the molecular level of both healthy and diseased people and the role of fat tissue in developing diabetes and atherosclerosis.