Lennart Philipson (1929-2011)

摘要

Lennart Philipson, a visionary leader and builder of life science research institutions, died on 26 June in Stockholm, Sweden. He began his career as a research scientist, but expanded his contributions in the building of robust research programs and institutions in Europe and the United States that set the tone and direction across many fields of the life sciences. Lennart Philipson was born in 1929 in Stockholm. He received an M.D. degree in 1957 and a Ph.D. degree for studies on viruses of the respiratory tract in 1958, both from Uppsala University, Sweden. After a postdoctoral period at the Rockefeller University, his first major independent venture was in Uppsala where in 1968, as the first ever Professor of Microbiology in the Faculty of Natural Sciences, he founded the Wallenberg Laboratory, a future hotbed for molecular microbiology in Sweden and Europe. At that time, he was a world-leading virologist whose research focused on adenoviruses, a common cause of respiratory infections in humans. He unraveled how the virus infects cells,.how its gene expression is regulated, and how it assembles.