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Helga Margrét Ögmundsdóttir
Helga Margrét Ögmundsdóttir (born 1948) is an Icelandic academic. She is a former professor at the University of Iceland. Personal life Helga Margrét Ögmundsdóttir was born in Reykjavík in 1948. Her father was Icelandic, and her mother was German. Helga's husband is Peter Holbrook, dentist and former professor, and they have two sons. Professional experience Helga graduated with a medical degree from the University of Iceland in 1975 and a PhD in immunology from the University of Edinburgh in 1979. After returning home in 1981 from studies and work in Edinburgh, she worked for the first few years in the Department of Virology at Landspitali University Hospital. Then, in 1987, the Icelandic Cancer Society appointed her to establish the Molecular and Cell Biology Research Laboratory, which she then directed along with Jórunn Erla Eyfjörð, molecular geneticist. The laboratory moved to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Iceland in 2008. It is now called the Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professor
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a 'person who professes'. Professors are usually experts in their field and teachers of the highest rank. In most systems of List of academic ranks, academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor". In some countries and institutions, the word ''professor'' is also used in titles of lower ranks such as associate professor and assistant professor; this is particularly the case in the United States, where the unqualified word is also used colloquially to refer to associate and assistant professors as well, and often to instructors or lecturers. Professors often conduct original research and commonly teach undergraduate, Postgraduate educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
