The Uppsala University Faculty of Medicine is one of the faculties of

Uppsala University Uppsala University (UU) () is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. Initially fou ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

, and is mainly dedicated to education and research in

medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...

and related fields of science and practice.

Education

The ''Uppsala University Faculty of Medicine'' provides the

medical education Medical education is vocational education, education related to the practice of being a medical practitioner, including the initial training to become a physician (i.e., medical school and internship (medical), internship) and additional trainin ...

at Uppsala University. This medical education is mainly located at ''Uppsala Biomedical Centre'' (BMC) during the initial and rather pre-clinical 2 years, while the rest of the education is mainly located at Uppsala Academic Hospital or other hospitals in the region.

Notable people

Robert Bárány Robert Bárány (, ; 22 April 1876 – 8 April 1936) was an Austrian-born otologist. He received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus. Life and career Bárán ...

, the recipient of the 1914

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine () is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, acco ...

for his work on the

physiology Physiology (; ) is the science, scientific study of function (biology), functions and mechanism (biology), mechanisms in a life, living system. As a branches of science, subdiscipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ syst ...

and

pathology Pathology is the study of disease. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when used in the context of modern medical treatme ...

of the

vestibular apparatus The vestibular system, in vertebrates, is a sensory system that creates the sense of balance and spatial orientation for the purpose of coordinating motor coordination, movement with balance. Together with the cochlea, a part of the auditory sys ...

of the

ear In vertebrates, an ear is the organ that enables hearing and (in mammals) body balance using the vestibular system. In humans, the ear is described as having three parts: the outer ear, the middle ear and the inner ear. The outer ear co ...

, was a professor at Uppsala University from 1917 until his death in 1936. * Carl Axel Gemzell (1910 - 2007) made research dealing with gonadotropins, including development of a pregnancy test to detect human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), as well as characterization of human pituitary and placental gonadotropins. He performed the first successful

ovulation induction Ovulation induction is the stimulation of ovulation by medication. It is usually used in the sense of stimulation of the development of ovarian follicles to reverse anovulation or oligoovulation. Scope The term ''ovulation induction'' can p ...

in women with hypothalamic-pituitary insufficiency using human pituitary

gonadotropin Gonadotropins are glycoprotein hormones secreted by gonadotropic cells of the anterior pituitary of vertebrates. They are central to the complex endocrine system that regulates normal growth, sexual development, and reproductive function. T ...

s while being a professor at Uppsala University.Carl A. Gemzell
at American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society. Submitted by Robert B. Jaffe. Retrieved July 2012.

References

External links

Uppsala University, Faculty of Medicine (Swedish)
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