Kjell Fuxe
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Biography
Fuxe has worked at the Karolinska Institutet since 1960, became prosektor in 1968 and professor in 1979. Since 2005 Fuxe is a professor emeritus at the Department of Neuroscience. Fuxe published over 1589 papers (1224 papers are found in PubMed) .He is a member Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and foreign member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and was a member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet for many years. He is mainly known for his work on central monoamine neurons, volume transmission and its different forms, receptor-receptor interactions in heteroreceptor complexes in the CNS and neuropsychopharmacology.