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Professor Wigzell served as the President of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden from 1995 to 2003, and has served as Professor of Immunology at Karolinska and Uppsala University. In 1990, Dr. Wigzell was elected Chairman of the European Union (EU) Concerted Research Programme into AIDS vaccination, EVA. He served as the Chairman of the Nobel Committee at Karolinska Institute 1990-1992. In 1991, Dr. Wigzell was appointed Director of the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control. Since 1999, he has served as Chief Scientific Advisor to the Swedish Government. Dr. Wigzell graduated from the Karolinska Institute as Doctor of Medicine (M.D. and also as a Ph.D.). He is a member of several national academies of sciences and has published more than 700 articles in international peer reviewed journals. | 