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Stefan Thor was born in Uppsala, Sweden.
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Stefan Thor
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He obtained a bachelor’s degree in 1988 and a doctorate degree in molecular biology in 1994 at Umeå University, Sweden. Between 1994 and 1999 he was a visiting research fellow at Salk Institute, Louisiana Jolla, United States of America, followed by five years as assistant professor and head of a research group at the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, Boston. In 2004 he was appointed professor of biology at Linköping University, focusing on evolutionary biology and molecular genetics.
Thor’s research team investigates the formation of the nervous system during embryonic development, id est (that is) its early development from a fertilized egg cell.
Using the fruit fly Drosophila as a system model, Thor’s research could be significant in the future in the fight against human neurological diseases.
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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
