Kjell Fuxe
Professor
Karolinska Institutet
Sweden
Biography
Kjell Fuxe is a Professor of Histology, Karolinska Institutet. Since 2005 Professor emeritus Department of Neuroscience,Karolinska Institutet,Stockholm,Sweden. Member of Nobel assembly 1986-2005.Honorary Doctorates at the Universities of Barcelona, Ferrara, Malaga, at Université Claude Bernard, Lyon , at Marquis Guiseppe Scicluna International University Foundation and at the Albert Einstein International Academy Foundation. He has received a significant number of awards and published over 1500 papers in neuroscience. 1209 of them are found in Pubmed. His major achievements involve pioneering work on central monoamine neurons, the existence of volume transmission, receptor-receptor interactions in heteroreceptor complexes and in neuroendocrinology and neuropsychopharmacology
Research Interest
Parkinson's Disease, receptor-receptor interactions in heteroreceptor complexes