Björn Vennström
Swedish molecular biologist
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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]
