Gunnar von Heijne
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10 June 1951
Björkénska priset (1998)
Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award[1]
Gunnar von Heijne | |
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.jpg) Gunnar von Heijne at ISMB in 2012 | |
| Born | Nils Gunnar Hansson von Heijne 10 June 1951 |
| Awards | Arrhenius Plaque (1997) Björkénska priset (1998) Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Royal Institute of Technology |
| Institutions | Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet |
Professor Nils Gunnar Hansson von Heijne (born 10 June 1951 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish scientist[2] working on signal peptides, membrane proteins[3][4][5] and bioinformatics[6][7] at the Stockholm Center for Biomembrane Research at Stockholm University.
Von Heijne graduated 1975 with a Master of Science degree in chemistry and chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).[8] He then became a doctoral student in theoretical physics at KTH, in a research group focussing on statistical mechanics and theoretical biophysics, and was awarded his PhD in 1980.[9] In 1983 he was made docent in theoretical biophysics at KTH, where he remained until 1988. 1982–1985 he was active as a science reporter at Sveriges Radio. 1989–1994 he was active at Karolinska Institutet, and in 1994 he was made a professor in theoretical chemistry at Stockholm University.[8]
