Carl G. Gahmberg

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Carl Gustav Gahmberg (born December 1, 1942 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish biochemist and cell biologist.

Live and act

Gahmberg studied medicine at the University of Helsinki . After receiving his PhD in biochemistry in 1971 , he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington until 1974 . Then he was a lecturer in cell biology at the University of Helsinki, where he was professor of biochemistry from 1981 until his retirement. In addition, he held a research professorship at the state-funded Academy of Finland from 1986 to 1991 .

Carl Gahmberg has been researching membrane proteins and especially transmembrane proteins , which in turn include integrins , since the early 1970s . With his staff, he has developed new methods for the analysis of cell surface proteins and important cell adhesion molecules such as fibronectin , leukocyte integrins and their intercellular cell adhesion molecules (Engl. Intercellular adhesion molecules , ICAMs) as 1987, the intercellular adhesion molecule 1 discovered (ICAM-1) and characterized. His research group currently focuses on: regulation of integrin activity through phosphorylation; the role of integrins and the intercellular cell adhesion molecule ICAM-5 in the central nervous system; Effect of hypoxia on normal and malignant leukocytes.

His scientific publications have received a lot of international attention and have been cited. His h-index is currently 64.

Gahmberg has received numerous national and international awards. For his dissertation he already received the prize named after Gustaf Komppa for the best dissertation published in Finland in 1971 in the field of chemistry. In 2009 he was honored with the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Chevalier) in France . He is a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and the Finnish Scientific Society , of which he has been secretary since 1992. He has been a full member of the Academia Europaea since 1989 and an external member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2007) and the Royal Science and Literature Society in Gothenburg (2008). Since 1980 he has been an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

In 2016 he was a member of the independent commission set up by the Karolinska Institute to investigate the falsified publications by Paolo Macchiarini .

Web links

  • Carl G. Gahmberg Homepage at the University of Helsinki (with a detailed curriculum vitae)
  • Website of the research group of Carl G. Gamberg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roster: Carl Gahmberg. Academia Europaea, accessed on February 2, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ External members: Carl Gustav Gahmberg. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gahmberg, Carl G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gahmberg, Carl Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish biochemist and cell biologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki