Background
Holmstedt, Bo Roland was born on May 24, 1918 in Karlskrona, Sweden.
Holmstedt, Bo Roland was born on May 24, 1918 in Karlskrona, Sweden.
Doctor of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, 1952.
Research assistant department pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, 1945-1948;
research assistant department pharmacology, Research Institute National Defense, Sundbyberg, Sweden, 1948-1952;
fellow department pharmacology Graduate School Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1953;
docent department pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, 1954-1957;
research fellow, Swedish Medical Research Council, 1957-1960;
associate professor, Royal College Dentistry, Stockholm, 1960-1964. Member expert advisory panel on insecticides World Health Organization, 1961, field worker, NorthAfrica, 1963. Program secretary 1st International Pharmaceutical Meeting, Stockholm, 1961.
Medical advisor to Sveriges Radio (Swedish Broadcasting Corporation), 1961. Visiting professor Baylor University, Houston, 1963. Member science advisory panel National Board Health and Welfare, 1963.
Deputy member National Swedish Poison Board, 1963. Member medical faculty Karolinska Institute, 1965. Foreign member Alpha-Helix Amazon Expedition, 1967, co-chief scientist and chief laboratory Phase VII, 1977.
Chairman Swedish Medical Research Council Planning Group for Narcotic Research, 1972. Member of advisory subcommittee on toxicology European Medical Research Council, 1974;associate medicinal botany Botan. Museum, Harvard University, 1982.
Organizer, committee member numerous symposiums. Lecturer in field.
Lieutenant Swedish Army, 1945-1953. Fellow European Society Toxicology, Royal Academy of Sciences, Academy Toxicological Sciences, Linnean Society London. Member European Society for Study of Drug Toxicity (founding member), Swedish Medical Society (secretary section drugs 1961-1964), Society Toxicology (liaison officer 1973), Royal Swedish Academy Engineering Sciences, Swedish Society Toxicology (honorary), Akademie der Wissenschafter der DDR (foreign member), Society Italiana di Tossicologia (honorary), l'Academy des Sciences Inscriptions et Belles Lettres de Toulouse, American Society Mass Spectrometry, American College Neuropsychopharmacology, British Pharmaceutical Society (associate), Deutsche Pharmakologische Gesellschaft, Fysiologforeningen, International Society Toxicology (founding member), Italian Society Toxicology (honorary), Skandinaviska farmakologsallskapet, Skandinavisk Selskab for Psykofarmakologi, Swedish Society Toxicology (honorary), International Union Toxicology (Second vice president 1980, president 1983), European Society Toxicology (honorary).
Married Gudrun Ã…hlberg.