Endocrine Abstracts

Olle Kämpe is professor and senior consultant in endocrinology at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. He holds the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg endowment professorship in clinical endocrinology since 2014 and was before that professor of molecular medicine at Uppsala University between 1999 and 2014. He is fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (www.kva.se/en), and member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet. He was adjunct member of the Nobel Committee for the Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017-2019 and a member of the Nobel Committee since 2020. He has participated in several EU-projects of which he coordinated one, EurAPS, dealing with APS-1/APECED. He has identified a number of the autoantibodies in clinical use for Addison's disease and APS-1 and initiated the Swedish national registries and biobanks (www.addisonregistret.se) for these disorders.