Rolf Thomas Perlmann (born March 2, 1959, in

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) is a professor of molecular

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. In 2006, he became a member of the

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. He became an adjunct member of Karolinska Institutet's

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in 2008 and was then elected in 2012. He has been Secretary for the

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since 2016. In 2022, he was elected a member of the

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