Lennart Philipson

Carl Lennart Philipson (July 16, 1929 – June 26, 2011) was a Swedish virologist and professor at Karolinska Institute. He is well known for his research in respiratory viruses and his direction over several research institutions.

Career

Philipson earned his MD in 1957 and PhD in 1958 at Uppsala University, working with Arne Tiselius. He came to the United States in 1959 to do a postdoc at the Rockefeller University in virology, before returning to Sweden's Uppsala University to establish his own laboratory in 1961 with Jan Pontén. He resigned after being unable to convince the council to increase the funding by 15-20% each year.

He was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1992.

In 2015, EMBL established the Lennart Philipson Award for translational research. He and his wife founded the Malin and Lennart Philipson Foundation. It is now run by his widow, and awards prizes to promising graduate students and postdocs.

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