Work at the Center for Surface Biotechnology and at the University of Utah
Karin Dahlgren Caldwell is Professor of Surface Biotechnology and directs the Center for Surface Biotechnology. As a result of her extended research career in the United States she holds appointments as Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and of Chemical and Fuels Engineering, in addition to being Research Professor of Bioengineering, all at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT. Her activities at the Center include coordinating the efforts of its different research groups, and to satisfy the research interests of the Center's different industrial partners. She lectures regularly on physical biochemistry and separation science, and is responsible for the Center's course on Biosensors.
Profile, professional and personal
After a year of kinetics studies in Montpellier, France, Karin joined the research group of Jerker Porath at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Uppsala, where she worked on lectin purification and characterization. After a few years of training in theoretical separation science under J. Calvin Giddings at the University of Utah in the US, she returned to Uppsala to prepare a doctoral thesis on enzyme immobilization based on hydrophobic interaction. During the first period in the Giddings laboratory she initiated exploratory work with the field-flow fractionation technique, work that she subsequently returned to Utah to continue. In 1985 she was able to start her own research group in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Utah, and in 1996 she became chairman of this department. In 1985 she began preparations for the formation of a University-Industry research cooperative named Center for Biopolymers at Interfaces and served as its director from its formal inception in 1986 until her resignation in 1997. At its peak, this center counted 25 member industries, and 24 faculty members from different departments and colleges across the Utah campus. During the past two decades she has been keenly interested in questions of technology transfer and how to foster constructive relations between academic and industrial research groups. A practical example on this is Allvivo, Birmingham, AL, USA, a company of which Karin is both a co-founder and holds a position as chair of its scientific advisory board. While in Utah she was also actively involved in promoting her Swedish heritage, as exemplified by her creation of the Swedish Heritage Society of Utah and the Utah chapter of the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce. Her leisure interests include classical music from all periods, as well as hiking and ski mountaineering.
Curriculum Vitae (autumn 1999)
Personal Data
| Full name: | Karin Dahlgren Caldwell |
| Born: | June 4, 1940, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Married: | October 3, 1970 to Dr. Dennis James Caldwell |
Educational Background
| Fil. Kand. | (B.S.) 1964 University of Uppsala, Sweden |
| Fil. Lic. | 1968 University of Uppsala, Sweden (Biochemistry; supervisor:Dr. Jerker Porath) |
| Fil. Dr. | (Ph.D) 1976, Biochemistry;University of Uppsala, Sweden |
Professional Data
| 1964-1965 | Teaching/Research Assistant, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France (with Dr. G. Lamaty) |
| 1968-1973 | Postdoctoral Research, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (with Dr. J. C. Giddings) |
| 1976-1979 | Postdoctoral Research, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (with Dr. J. C. Giddings) |
| 1979-1982 | Assistant Research Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah |
| 1982-1986 | Associate Research Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah |
| 1985-1990 | Associate Research Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah |
| 1985-1997 | Director, Center for Biopolymers at Interfaces, University of Utah |
| 1986-present | Adjunct (Assoc.) Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah |
| 1987-present | Adjunct (Assoc.) Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah |
| 1987-present | Adjunct (Assoc.) Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah |
| 1990-1995 | Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah |
| 1995-1998 | Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah |
| 1997-1998 | Chairman, Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah |
| 1998-present | Professor of Surface Biotechnology, Uppsala University, Sweden |
| 1998-present | Research Professor of Bioengineering and Chemistry, Univ. of Utah |
| 1998-present | Director, Center for Surface Biotechnology, Uppsala University |
| 2002-present | Dean of Chemistry, Uppsala University |
Scientific Posts
Member, Editorial Board, Separation Science and Technology , published by Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York .
Member, Editorial Board, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces
Member, Steering Group for the International Field-Flow Fractionation Symposia
Secretary/Treasurer, International Society for Molecular Recognition
Member, State Advisory Council on Science and Technology, 1993-1997 ( Utah )
Chairman, 69 th ACS Colloids and Surface Science Symp., Salt Lake City , June 11-14, 1995
Chairman, 7 th International Symp. on Field-Flow Fractionation, Salt Lake City , Feb. 8-11,1998
Founding Member, European Association for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Board Member, Section for Colloid and Surface Science, Swedish Chemical Society
Honors
Recipient, Governor's 1992 Award for Science and Technology, State of Utah
Recipient, University of Utah 's College of Engineering Patent Award for 1992
Recipient, University of Utah 's College of Engineering Patent Award for 1996
Recipient, Society for Biomaterials' "Clemson Award" for 1998
Member, Royal Society of Sciences, Uppsala , 1999
International Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 2000
Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2001
"Excellent Researcher" award from the Swedish Science Council (VR), 2002
Invited speaker (1 of 8) to the symposium "Analytical Chemistry in Europe and Asia " at the 227 th American Chemical Society Semi-Annual Meeting, Anaheim , CA 2004.
Scientific Affiliations
Svenska Kemistsamfundet, Ytkemiska sektionen
American Society of Biological Chemists
American Chemical Society
The Protein Society
The Society for Biomaterials
International Society for Molecular Recognition
Controlled Release Society
Publications and patents
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