Medical Institutions
Karolinska Institute
kar-oh-LIN-ska
Also Known As Karolinska Institutet
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The Karolinska Institute was founded in 1810 on the island of Kungsholmen in Stockholm, as the Kongl. Caroliska Medico Chirurgiska Institutet, for the training of army surgeons; it is Sweden's third oldest medical school, after Uppsala University (1477) and Lund University (1666), and today accounts for about 30 percent of medical training and more than 40 percent of academic medical and life science research conducted in Sweden. Since being asked to take on the role by the Nobel Foundation, a Nobel Assembly of fifty of the Institute's own professors has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, keeping the selection independent of the Foundation itself.
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Karolinska awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of streptomycin.
Karolinska awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the isolation of insulin.
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