Erling Norrby - Curriculum vitae#

Family status: Married. Three children, born 1965, 1966, 1968

Examinations

• MD, December 14, 1963, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
• Dissertation (equivalent to PhD): May 19, 1964, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
• Docent of Medicine, September 24, 1964 at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

• 1959-1966 Temporary lecturer positions in the Department of Virus Research at Karolinska Institutet
• 1966-1972 Career award from the Swedish Cancer Society
• 1972-1997 Professor of Virology, Karolinska Institutet
• 1972-1990 Chairman of the Department of Virology, Karolinska Institutet
• 1990-1996 Dean of the Medical Faculty of Karolinska Institutet
• 1997-2003 Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Professor

• 1976-1989 State Controller of Viral Vaccines in Sweden
• 1975-1980 Member of the Nobel Committee, Karolinska Institutet (Vice Chairman 1979-1980)
• 1973-1974,
• 1980-1990,
• 1991-1993 Adjunct member of the Nobel Committee, Karolinska Institutet
• 1990 Chairman of the Nobel Assembly
• 1981-1987 Vice chairman (1981-1984) and chairman (1984-1987) of the Division of Virology of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (member of the Board of IUMS during these years)
• 1975-1995 Adviser to the World Health Organization
• 1970-1982 Member of the Executive Committee for Taxonomy of Viruses
• 1969-1985 Member of the Granting Committee of the Swedish Cancer Society, vice chairman 1977-1980
• 1979-1985 Chairman, Information Committee, Swedish Cancer Society
• 1983-1984 Chairman of the Board for the Section of Medical Microbiology of the Swedish Society of Medical Sciences
• 1979-1983 Chairman of the Granting Committee of the National Society for Handicapped Individuals
• 1978-1987 Member of the Grants Committee for Prenatal Research
• 1981-1985 Member of the Grants Committee of the Swedish Society of Medical Sciences
• 1983-1988 Member of the Grants Committee for Microbiology of the Swedish Medical Research Council
• 1980-1985 Member of the Board of King Gustav V Jubilee Fund
• 1983-1993 Member of the Board of the National Bacteriological Laboratory
• 1987-1990 Member of the Board of KabiVitrum Co
• 1987-1990 Member of the Board of KabiGen
• 1990-1994 Member of the Board of Kabi Pharmacia
• 1992-1995 Member of the Board of Pharmacia Biotech Co
• 1987-1991 Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Group of KabiGen
• 1980-1994 Member (1980-83) and chairman (1987-1994) of the Swedish Hybrid-DNA Delegation
• 1981-1988 Member of the Advisory Committee on Vaccines of the National Health Board
• 1974-1997 Member of the Society for General Virology, UK
• 1974-1997 Member of the American Society for Microbiology, USA
• 1987-1993 Member of the American Society of Virology
• 1976-1987 Editor of Archives of Virology
• 1978-1986 Editor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
• 1980-1997 Member of the Advisory Board for J Virol, J Gen Virol, J Med Virol, Scand J Immunol, Vaccines and Advanced Virus Research
• 1984-1997 Visiting Adjunct Professor at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
• 1990-2009 Member of the Scientific Council of the Paul Ehrlich Foundation
• 1997- Visiting Scholar at The Neuroscience Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
• 1997-2003 Chairman of the Board of the Sven Hedin Foundation
• 1997-2003 Member of the Board of the Nobel Foundation
• 1998-2004 Member of the Board of Karlstad University
• 1999-2003 Chairman of the Rolf Schock Foundation
• 2000-2003 Chairman of the Science Education Committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
• 2001- Member of the Board of the Tobias Foundation
• 2003-2006 Member of the Board of Advisors of the Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, MD, USA
• 2003- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, MD, USA
• 2003- Member of the Prize Committee of the Aristeio Bodossaki Foundation
• 2003-2009 Member of the Board of the Postkod Foundation
• 2005- Trustee of the Boards of the J. Craig Venter Institute and Foundation (since 2006 one Institute). Since 2007 Vice Chairman
• 2006-2008 Scientific Advisor to AlphaHelix Molecular Diagnostics AB, Uppsala, Sweden
• 2006- Founding father and Chairman of the Science Board of the Institute Para Limes, Warnsveld, The Netherlands
• 2007- Trustee of the Gustaf's V 80 Years Foundation
• 2010- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Synthetic Genomics Vaccine, Inc.
• 2010- Member of the Board of the Swedish Post Code Association

• 2001- Lord Chamberlain in Waiting at the Royal Swedish Court

• 2000 Advisor to the Science Council of Japan, Tokyo
• 2000 Member, representing IAP, of the ICSU coordinated stake holder group for Science and Technology at PrepCom II, New York and PrepCom IV, Bali for WSSD
• 2002 External Reviewer of the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, Tokyo