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Karolinska Institutet

FOR ALMOST TWO CENTURIES Karolinska Institutet has trained tens of thousands of physicians, dentists, nurses,midwives, speech therapists, opticians, physiotherapists, audiologists and others to serve humanity – in Sweden and around the world. The past and the future have always walked side by side at Karolinska Institutet. Our discoveries have changed the face of medicine: the pacemaker; the role of plasma cells in the production of antibodies; the gamma knife for treating brain tumours; the development of growth hormones, insulin and heparin; and the first drug for rheumatoid arthritis – just to name a few. In 1895, Alfred Nobel entrusted Karolinska Institutet with the responsibility of awarding the annual Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Faithful to that honour, Karolinska Institutet has always striven to offer topquality training, while remaining in the vanguard of international medical research. Five of the eight Swedes who have received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine so far were from Karolinska Institutet.

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