Karolinska Institutet
Higher EducationStockholm, Sweden5001-10000 Employees
Karolinska Institutet is a higher education institution and medical university located at 6 Nobels Väg, Solna, near Stockholm, Sweden. It is recognized as one of the world's leading medical universities, with a mission to contribute to the improvement of human health through research and education. Since 1901, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has selected the Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine. The institute was founded in 1810 by King Karl XIII as an academy for training skilled army surgeons and has developed into a modern medical university. Karolinska Institutet accounts for over 40 percent of medical academic research in Sweden and offers the country’s broadest range of education in medicine and health sciences, employing between 5,001 and 10,000 people. It maintains a close relationship to the clinical milieu and has an established infrastructure and a stable financial situation to sustain high-quality research and education.