Göran K. Hansson (born 1951), is a Swedish physician and scientist. Hansson was awarded his doctorate in 1980 at the University of Gothenburg. He has been a research scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle, professor of cell biology at the University of Gothenburg, and visiting professor at Harvard Medical School. Since 1995, he is

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of experimental cardiovascular research at the

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. His research concerns the interplay between the

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and

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s, and the cause of atherosclerosis.Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien: Tre nya ledamöter i akademien
, Press announcement 2007-03-15 Important contributions include the discovery of inflammatory cells and signals in atherosclerotic arteries and of protective immune responses against this disease. In 2007, Hansson was elected member of the

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and served as its secretary general from 2015 until 2022. Hansson is also a member of Academia Europaea and was previously a member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute. He has served on the

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at the Karolinska Institute (for the

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) for 17 years and was its secretary until 2015. He was vice chair of the board of directors of the

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from 2010 until 2022. He is a scientific advisor to Humanitas University in Milan, the Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research in Trondheim, and the Leducq Foundation.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hansson, Goran K. 1951 births Living people Swedish immunologists Academic staff of the Karolinska Institute University of Gothenburg alumni Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences