Background
Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson was born on May 21, 1934, in Halmstad, Halland Country, Halland, Sweden. He is a son of Anders Samuelsson and Stina (Nilsson) Samuelsson.
Lund University, Lund, Scania, Sweden
Circa 1956 to 1958 Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson attended Lund University.
Karolinska Institute, Solna, Stockholm County, Sweden
In 1960 Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson received a Doctor of Medical Science degree from the Karolinska Institute and a Doctor of Medicine in 1961.
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Many new antileukotriene drugs are now marketed as antiasthma drugs and represent the first new drugs in this field since the 1970s. This book covers the steps that have led to the discovery and development of these new drugs and offers detailed descriptions of their clinical applications. The review chapters on the main aspects of basic and applied leukotriene research are written by leading specialists in the field, and the volume takes a new approach in presenting information of particular interest to both scientists and clinicians in the fields of asthma, inflammation and allergic diseases.
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1999
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This volume is the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advances in Prostaglandin and Leukotriene Research: Basic Science and New Clinical Applications, held in Florence, Italy, on June 4-8, 2000, which continues the tradition of covering both basic and clinical aspects of prostaglandin and leukotriene research. At this meeting particular emphasis was given to the potential application of the novel COX-2 inhibitors, the genetics of asthma relating to the production of leukotrienes, and novel cellular networks for the production of leukotrienes and lipoxins. Traditionally, as has been done in past meetings of this series, a considerable amount of new material was presented and discussed this year, with particular attention given to the newest clinical data.
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2002
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Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson was born on May 21, 1934, in Halmstad, Halland Country, Halland, Sweden. He is a son of Anders Samuelsson and Stina (Nilsson) Samuelsson.
Circa 1956 to 1958 Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson attended Lund University. In 1960 he received a Doctor of Medical Science degree from the Karolinska Institute and a Doctor of Medicine in 1961.
In 1961 Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson served as a research fellow at Harvard University, and then in 1962 he rejoined Sune K. Bergstrom at the Karolinska Institute, where he remained until 1966. At the Karolinska Institute Samuelsson worked with a group of researchers who were trying to characterize the structures of prostaglandins. Prostaglandins are hormone-like substances found throughout the body, so named in the 1930s on the erroneous assumption that they originated in the prostate. They play an important role in the circulatory system, and they help protect the body against sickness, infection, pain, and stress. Expanding on their earlier research, Bergstrom, Samuelsson, and other researchers discovered the role that arachidonic acid, an unsaturated fatty acid found in meats and vegetable oils, plays in the formation of prostaglandins. By developing synthetic methods of producing prostaglandins in the laboratory, this group made prostaglandins accessible for scientific research worldwide. It was Samuelsson who discovered the process through which arachidonic acid is converted into compounds he named endoperoxides, which are in turn converted into prostaglandins.
Prostaglandins have many veterinary and livestock breeding applications, and to explore these Samuelsson joined the faculty of the Royal Veterinary College in Stockholm in 1967. He returned to the Karolinska Institute as professor of medicine and physiological chemistry in 1973. Samuelsson served as the chair of the department of physiological chemistry from 1973 to 1983, and as dean of the medical faculty from 1978 to 1983, combining administrative duties with a rigorous research schedule. During 1976 and 1977 Samuelsson also served as a visiting professor at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
During these years, Samuelsson continued his investigation of prostaglandins and related compounds. In 1973 he discovered the prostaglandins involved in the clotting of the blood; he called these thromboxanes. Samuelsson subsequently discovered the compounds, which he called leukotrienes, that are found in white blood cells (or leukocytes). Leukotrienes are involved in asthma and in anaphylaxis, the shock or hypersensitivity that follows exposure to certain foreign substances, such as the toxins in an insect sting.
In the wake of such research, prostaglandins have been used to treat fertility problems, circulatory problems, asthma, arthritis, menstrual cramps, and ulcers. Prostaglandins have also been used medically to induce abortions. As noted by a writer for New Scientist magazine, the 1982 Nobel Prize shared by Bergstrom, Samuelsson, and Vane acknowledged that they had "carried prostaglandins from the backwaters of biochemical research to the frontier of medical applications." In 1983, succeeding Bergstrom, Samuelsson was appointed as the rector of the Karolinska Institute and served until 1995. Samuelsson became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1981 and served as Chairman of the Board of the Nobel Foundation 1993 to 2005.
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1999Benht Ingemar Samuelsson is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal National Academy of Medicine Spain and the International Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy, the Mediterranean Academy of Sciences, the Academie Europaea, the French Academy of Sciences, the Association of American Physicians, the Swedish Medical Association, the American Society of Biological Chemists, the International Society of Hematology, the Foreign Association of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the Spanish Society of Allergol and Clinical Immunology.
On August 19, 1958, Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson married Inga Karin Bergstein. They have two children: Elisabet and Astrid.