10 Facts About Karolinska Institutet

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

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

Karolinska Institutet 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 Institutet Institute is Sweden's third oldest medical school, after Uppsala University and Lund University .

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

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

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

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

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

The reason for creating a special body for the decisions concerning the Nobel Prize was the fact that the Karolinska Institutet 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.