12 Facts About Karolinska Institute

The Karolinska Institute is consistently ranked amongst the world's best medical schools, ranking 6th worldwide for medicine in 2021.

The current rector of Karolinska Institute is Ole Petter Ottersen, who took office in August 2017.

Karolinska Institute was founded in 1810 on the island of Kungsholmen on the west side of Stockholm; the main campus was relocated decades later to Solna, just outside Stockholm.

Karolinska Institute is Sweden's third oldest medical school, after Uppsala University and Lund University (founded in 1666).

Karolinska Institute offers the widest range of medical education under one roof in Sweden.

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Karolinska Institute is not listed in the overall QS World University Rankings since it only ranks multi-faculty universities.

Karolinska Institute received unfavorable attention in the 2010s for its failure to prevent the deaths of seven patients at the hands of one of their star surgeons, Paolo Macchiarini, who was ultimately found to have repeatedly falsified medical data in order to perform experimental surgeries that were unsuccessful and lead to the deaths of the patients, where diseased tracheas were replaced with prosthetic implants.

Karolinska Institute later appointed an external expert, Bengt Gerdin, to review the charges, comparing the results reported by Macchiarini and his collaborators to the medical record of the hospital.

In February 2016, the Karolinska Institute published a review of Macchiarini's CV that identified discrepancies.

Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute is a body at the Karolinska Institute which awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

The Nobel Assembly consists of fifty professors in medical subjects at the Karolinska Institute, appointed by the faculty of the institute, and is a private organisation which is formally not part of the Karolinska Institute.

The reason for creating a special body for the decisions concerning the Nobel Prize was the fact that the Karolinska Institute is a state-run university, which in turn means that it is subject to various laws that apply to government agencies in Sweden and similar Swedish public sector organisations, such as freedom of information legislation.