Professor Folke Sj?qvist is the 2013 BCPT nordic prize winner in basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology

摘要

Professor Folke Sjoqvist, who recently turned 80, is still very active and has accomplished remarkable results in many areas of Clinical Pharmacology. He began his thesis work under the pharmacologist-toxicologist pioneer Professor Bo Holmstedt and with Professor Borje Uvnas chairing the institution at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. The thesis concerned basic experimental pharmacology and ganglionic autonomic transmission. He then had a long postdoc in the USA where his scientific interest was profoundly reoriented towards clinical pharmacology. The most important influence was in the laboratory of the legendary Bernard B. Brodie at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Professor Sjoqvist became engaged in the new fields of drug metabolism exploring the roles of species and interindividual differences and innovative methods for specific chemical drug analysis. He also studied clinical trial methodology with Professor Louis Lasagna at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.