Carl-Henrik Heldin was born in 1952. Professor Heldin was between 1986-2017 the head of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Uppsala, and has been Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at Uppsala University since 1992. He is chairman of the boards of the Nobel Foundation (since 2013), the Science for Life Laboratory (since 2013) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (since 2016). He has a solid reputation and extensive network from assignments as advisor to several academic institutions. Professor Heldin was also Vice President of the European Research Council until 2014. He has over 420 published scientific and 210 review articles and has been awarded several prestigious research awards in Sweden, France, Germany and the United States.
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