Per Svenningsson is a neurologist specializing in the neuropharmacology of movement disorders such as

Parkinson’s disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom ...

. He is a professor of

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at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the

Karolinska Institutet The Karolinska Institute (KI; sv, Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden. The Karolinska Institute is consiste ...

and in the Department of Neurology at

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. He is the team leader of a research group that studies the underlying pathogenic process of PD. Svenningsson is also a member of many research councils and committee, including the

European College of Neuropsychopharmacology The European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) is a pan-European, non-profit scientific association that serves as a platform to exchange and promote research in the field of neuropsychopharmacology. The ECNP “is committed to ensuring t ...

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ECNP The European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) is a pan-European, non-profit scientific association that serves as a platform to exchange and promote research in the field of neuropsychopharmacology. The ECNP “is committed to ensuring ...

Career

Education

Svenningsson received his MD and PhD from the

, where he also completed postdoctoral research. In 2012 he was appointed full professor in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience and the Department of Neurology at the

Research focus/interests

Svenningsson is the team leader of a research group that studies movement disorders such as

at the molecular and cellular level. The focus of the group is to uncover non-motor symptoms of PD that manifest early on in the disease with the hopes of creating neuroprotective drugs to combat its progression.

Awards

Among Svenningsson’s honors and awards are the NARSAD Young Investigator Award (2007), awarded to promising young scientists conducting neurobiological research by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. In 2008 he was awarded a researcher position at the

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special ...

Positions of trust and research assessments

In addition to research and teaching, Svenningsson holds a number of positions of trust. He was a former grant reviewer for INSERM/ANR in

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. He has been on the reviewing committee of the Finnish Medical Research Council, the Swedish Parkinson Fund, and the Norwegian Medical Research Council. He is a member of the Ulf von Euler Lecturer committee and a councilor on the Executive Committee of the

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Publications

Svenningsson has published extensively, with an H-index of 41, 5,639 citations, 121 published articles, 15 reviews, and 7 book chapters.

References

External links

“European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP)”
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