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CURRICULUM VITAE

 

KÁRI STEFÁNSSON 

Place of Birth:             Reykjavik, Iceland

Date of Birth:              April 6, 1949

 

EDUCATION:

 

1970                Matriculation, The College of Reykjavik, Reykjavik, Iceland

1976                M.D., University of Iceland Medical School, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

 

1976-1977      Intern, National Hospital of Iceland (University of Iceland), Reykjavik, Iceland.

1977-1978      Resident, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago.

1979-1980      Research Associate, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago.

1980-1982      Resident in Neuropathology (Department of Pathology and Neurology), University of Chicago.

1982-1983      Advanced Clinical Fellow in Neurology and Neuropathology, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago.

1983-1986      Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology and Pathology (Neuropathology), and a member of the Committees on Immunology and Neurobiology, University of Chicago.

1986-1991      Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology and Pathology (Neuropathology) and a member of the Committees on Immunology and Neurobiology, University of Chicago.

1991-1993      Professor, Departments of Neurology and Pathology (Neuropathology) and a member of the Committees on Immunology and Neurobiology, University of Chicago.

1993-1997       Professor of Neurology, Neuropathology and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School and Chief, Division of Neuropathology, Departments of Neurology and Pathology, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston.

1996-               President, CEO, and Director of deCODE genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland

2010-               Professor of Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

BOARD

CERTIFICATION:          American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Neurology)

                                    American Board of Pathology (Neuropathology)

                                    Certification in Neurology in Iceland

                                    Certification in Neuropathology in Iceland

 

PROFESSIONAL           American Neurological Association

ORGANIZATIONS:       Association of American Neuropathologists

                                    American Association for the Advancement of Science

                                    American Society of Human Genetics

                                    European Molecular Biology Organization

 

SCIENTIFIC AWARDS:

 

2005    Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization

2007    The World Glaucoma Association Award

2007    Jakobus Award

2009    Anders Jahre Award

2009    The European Society of Human Genetics Award

2014    The American Alzheimer’s Association’s Inge Grundke-Iqbal Award

2016    The Federation of European Biomedical Societies’ Sir Hans Krebs Medal

2017    The American Society of Human Genetics’ the William Allan Award

2019    Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)

2019    Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Award

2019    International KFJ Award from Rigshospitalet in Denmark

2020    European Society of Cardiology, The Society´s 2020 Gold Medal

2024    Eric K Fernström Nordic Prize

 

RECOGNITIONS:

1997    One of the top ten entrepreneurs of the year, Red Herring Magazine

2000    Founding Fellow of the Biotechnology Center at New York University School of Medicine

2000    Technology Pioneer of the World Economic Forum

2000    Chosen by BusinessWeek as one of the stars of Europe in 2000, they included 50 leaders at the forefront of change

2007    Chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential men of the year (Time100 list for 2007)

2007    Chosen by Newsweek as one of the 10 most important biologists of the 21. Century

2010    On the Reuter´s/Thompson´s list of the world´s 10 most cited scientists of 2010

 

HONORABLE ENGAGEMENTS:          

  1. The Abraham Ribikoff Lecture, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, 1999
  2. Karl Landsteiner lecture, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 2008
  3. Keynote lecture, The Genomics of Common Diseases conference, Nature Genetics and the Wellcome Trust, Cambridge, UK, 2008
  4. Noble Forum Lecture at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 2009
  5. Lecture at the 100 Anniversery Symposium of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2008
  6. The Sackler Lecture at MIT 2009
  7. Lecture at the Noble Symposium on Genetics in Medicine, Stockholm, 2010
  8. Keynote lecture at EMBO/EMBL symposium on Human variation-Causes and Consequences, Heidelberg, 2010
  9. Keynote lecture at the 11th International Conference on Obesity, Stockholm, 2010
  10. Keynote lecture at World Psychiatric Association Congress in Bejing, 2010.
  11. Lecture in the Killam Research Seminar Series at the Montreal Neurologic Institute, Montreal 2010
  12. Lecure in a Nobel Assembly Symposium on Pharmacogenomics and Epigenomics, Stockholm, May 2011
  13. Lecture in a Lena Peltonen Memorial Symposium in Helsinki May 2011
  14. Lecture in an event at the 200th Anniversery of the University of Oslo. Oslo, Oct 2011
  15. Lecture in Horizons in Molecular Life Science at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sept. 2011
  16. Keynote lecture at the European Science Open Forum, Dublin, July 2012
  17. Lecture at PopTech 2012 in Reykjavik, Iceland
  18. Public Lecture as a part of the 100th Anniversery of the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, January 2012
  19. Lecture in the Cancer Research UK lecture series at Cambridge Univeristy, UK 2012
  20. Keynote Lecture at EMBL conference on Omics and Personalized medicine, Heidelberg, Germany, February 2012
  21. Lecture, distinguished seminar series at Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Madrid, Sept 2012
  22. Keynote Lecture in the Omics Revolution Workshop at the University of Antwerp, September 2012
  23. Lecture in Genomics in Metabolism, Copenhagen Bioscience Conference, Copenhagen, 2013.
  24. Lecture at The Wellcome Trust Center for Human genetics University of Oxford, 201
  25. Lecture in Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, Copenhagen, 2014
  26. Lecture in Symposium – Genetics of Human Brain Development, Uppsala, 2014
  27. Lecture in SciLifeLab Day, Uppsala, 2014
  28. Plenary Lecture in XXIInd World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, Copenhagen, 2014
  29. Lecture in the Annual Conference of the Progress Educational Trust, London, 2014
  30. Lecture at The Genomics of Common Diseases & The GCD/IGES joint symposium – Big Data Analytics for Genetics in Personalised Medicine, Wellcome Genome Campus Conference Centre, Hingston, UK, Sept. 2017
  31. Lecture, Codex World’s Top 50 Innovators conference, London, Sept. 2017
  32. Lecture, DRIFT Consortium, ASHG Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, Oct 2017
  33. Acceptance address, William Allan Award, ASHG Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, Oct 2017
  34. Lecture, Neuroscience Colloquium, Charité Hospital, Berlin, Nov 2017
  35. Lupiski Lecture, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, March 2018
  36. Lecture, Genomics of Brain Disorders Conference, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, April 2018
  37. Lecture, Epigenetics Congress 2018, London, Sept 2018
  38. Private lecture, Novo Nordisk Foundation, Copenhagen, May 2018
  39. Wallace H Coulter Distinguished Lecture Award, International Society for Laboratory Hematology, Vancouver, May 2019
  40. Seminar on the genetics of human diversity, Amgen Pharmaceuticals, Napa, California, June 2019
  41. Lecture, UK Biobank Annual Scientific Conference, UK Biobank, London, June 2019
  42. Lecture, Alzheimer’s Association International Congress (AAIC), Los Angeles, CA, June 2019
  43. Lecture, 60th McKusick Short Course Anniversary Symposium, Bar Harbor, Maine, July 2019
  44. Keynote lecture, EMBO “Genes and Molecules in Precision Medicine” meeting at Basel Life, Basel, Switzerland, Sept 2019
  45. Lecture, Measurable Man conference, Uppsala, Sweden, Oct 2019
  46. Lecture in relation to acceptance of the International KFJ Award, Rigshospitalet in Denmark, November 2019
  47. Lecture, Building a Nordic Research Base for Precision Medicine, University of Copenhagen, February 2020.
  48. Lecture, bi-annual MindShare event, The Chateaux Deer Valley, Utah, February 2020.
  49. Keynote lecture, HerediGene Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 2020
  50. Keynote lecture, Precision Genomics, St. George, Utah, February 2020
  51. Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences for designing the first large initiative in population genetics of human health and helped discover variants affecting cancer, diabetes, schizophrenia, and other conditions. Inaguration lecture, Washington, DC, April 2020. Virtual event.
  52. Lecture, The Genomics in Health Implementation Forum 2020. Virtual event, March 2020
  53. Lecture, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor. Virtual event, May 2020
  54. Lecture, The Royal Society of Medicine, University of Greenwich. Virtual event, May 2020.
  55. Lecture, 2020 Amgen Taiwan Oncology Innovation Summit. Taiwan Virtual event, July 2020.
  56. Award Ceremony Inspirational Lecture, the European Society of Cardiology, The Society´s 2020 Gold Medal. Virtual event, 2020
  57. Honorary lecture, IMF International Myeloma Working Group, Frankfurt, DE. Virtual Summit, August 2020.
  58. Keynote lecture, 2020 Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society Annual Meeting, Ottawa, CA. Virtual meeting 2020.
  59. Lecture, Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the Icelandic Population and Public Health Response Confirmation. Virtual COVID-19 Webinar.
  60. Lecture, 2020 Global Conference on Regulatory Science, Harvard University. Virtual conference, October 2020.
  61. Lecture, Nordic Precision Medicine Forum. Virtual Conference, November 2020
  62. Lecture, 63rd Annual Fellows Meeting, The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Walter Bauer Memorial Meeting. Virtual Meeting, November 2020.
  63. Lecture on Fertility, genomics and COVID-19, The Progress Educational Trust Annual Conference. Virtual online meeting, December 2020
  64. Richard Doll Lecture at the University of Oxford, January 2021