Hans Lennernäs#
| Membership Number: | 7347 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.uu.se/en/department/pharmaceutical-biosciences |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1578-5184 |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 - present Full Professor at Uppsala University, Dept of Pharmaceutical Bioscience, Drug Discovery and Development
- 2015 - 2019 Part time employed and a member of the board of Empros Pharma AB
- 2002 - 2015 Part time employed and a member of the board of LIDDS AB
- 2000 - 2012 Adjunct Professor in Biopharmaceutics at the Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Copenhagen.
- 1999 - 2000 Professor in Pharmaceutical science at Uppsala University.
- 1993 - 1999 Principal investigator (PI) on a research contract from FDA, Rockville, USA. The work led to the establishment of the Biopharmaceutics Classification System
- 1994 - 1999 Lecturer and associate professor (docent) in Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmacy, Uppsala University
- 1992 - 1994 Research assistant in Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmacy, Uppsala University
- 1986 - 1992 Ph.D. student at Department of Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmacy, Uppsala University
- 1980 - 1982 Laboratory technician at AstraZeneca, Gotherburg (former Hässle in Mölndaj (Sweden)
Fields of Scholarship
- Locoregional treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
- Oral replacement treatment in endocrinology (adrenal insufficiency and hypothyroidism) and Parkinson's disease
- Gastrointestinal physiology and oral drug delivery
- Pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism and pharmacodynamics
- Chemotherapeutic induced intestinal mucositis
- Drug regulation, Biopharmaceutical Classification System
- Tumor drug delivery
- Treatment of prostate cancer
Honours and Awards
- 1987 Glaxo Wellcome International Achievement Award
- 1998 Fédération Internationale Pharmaceutique (FIP), Annual Award from the Industrial Pharmacy Section
- 2004 AAPS Fellow at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Science
- 2004 AAPS Meritorious Manuscript Award 2004 fort the best publication in Pharmaceutical research, the journal for American Association of Pharmaceutical Science
- 2008 EUFEPS New Safe Medicines Faster Award In Drug Development Science 2008 (http://www.eufeps.org
) Sponsored by Sanofi Aventis, Paris, France
- 2007 - 2011 Quality and Renewal, International evaluation of research at UU. Prof. Lennernäs received the highest research rank after an international evaluation at UU. “Both product development and successful translational to patients through commercialization of technologies, including patents and spin-out companies, should be prominently highlighted as a successful example of societal engagement”
- 2015 Best paper Award published in Clinical Endocrinology during 2015: ‘Adrenal insufficiency: review of clinical outcomes with current glucocorticoid replacement therapy’
- 2017 Hjärnäpplet, Uppsala University Innovation Award
- 2019 Lilly och Sven Thuréus Awards at Swedish Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala 2019. The Royal Society of Sciences is Sweden’s oldest learned society, founded in 1710
- 2020 AstraZeneca Award for British Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (APS), UK
- 2022 Recipient of the Humboldt Research Prize, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
- Memberships of scientific societies
- 1994 -1999 Co-developed Biopharmaceutical Classification System at FDA, USA. Member of the R&D international group at FDA, Rockville that developed a regulatory guide line
- 1990 - 2020 Swedish Pharmaceutical Acdemy, Stockholm
- 1998 Member of Gattafossé, Diplomie D’Honoré, Acadeia Des Alpilles
- 1992 - 2019 Member, American Association of Pharmaceutical Science, USA
- 2000 - 2019 Founding Member, Drug Delivery Foundation (DDF). DDF is an international not-for-profit organization promoting education, training, and research in oral drug delivery
- 2000 - 2012 Adjunct Professor in Biopharmaceutics at the Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Copenhagen
- 2019 - Member of The Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala, which is Sweden’s oldest learned society, founded in 1710. The Society came under Royal patronage in 1728. Anders Celsius was its first true secretary; the secretarial tasks had up till then been handled by Erik Benzelius himself. Among well-known members of the eighteenth century one may mention Carl von Linné, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Nils Rosén von Rosenstein, Samuel Klingenstierna, and Torben Bergman
