Staffan Normark

Swedish microbiologist and physician

Jan Staffan Normark (born 1945) is a Swedish physician, microbiologist and infectious disease researcher. He grew up in Umeå and was awarded his Ph.D. at Umeå University in 1971.^[1] At the end of the 1970s, he was one of the first Swedish scientists to use the new genetic engineering tools in infection-related research.^[2] In 1980, he was made a professor at Umeå University, then the university's youngest. 1989 he was recruited as professor of molecular microbiology to Washington University in St. Louis.^[3] 1993 he returned to Sweden as professor of infectious disease control, in particular clinical bacteriology, at Karolinska Institutet.^[4] From 1999 to 2005 he served as the Executive Director of the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF). In 2008 he was active at Umeå University to build up a research group within bioinformatics and infection research. Much of his research in the 2000s have focussed on pneumococcus.

Normark was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1987^[5] and took up the position as the Academy's permanent secretary on 1 July 2010, when he succeeded Gunnar Öquist.^[3]

1992 he was awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize in medicine and in 1999 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in April 2019.^[6]

Staffan Normark is married to Birgitta Henriques-Normark, also a professor and researcher within infectious disease at Karolinska Institutet.^[7]

References

^ Normark, Staffan (1971). Genetic, physiological and ultrastructural studies on a chain-forming mutant of Escherichia coli K 12 with increased sensitivity to several antibiotics (PhD). Umeå. OCLC 314720559.
^ Umeå University, November 24, 2008: Staffan Normark – en världsledande infektionsforskare har återvänt Archived 5 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish)
^ ^a ^b Kungl. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: Staffan Normark blir ny ständig sekreterare Archived 14 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine, press release 15 April 2010 (in Swedish)
^ Karolinska Institutet: Staffan Normark, accessed 19 April 2010
^ Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien, Matrikel 1991, ISSN 0302-6558, p. 72.
^ "2019 NAS Election". National Academy of Sciences. 30 April 2019.
^ Karolinska Institutet: Birgitta Henriques-Normark Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 19 April 2010