Biographies of Authors and Editors
Thomsen, Peter M.D., Ph.D., F.B.S.E.
Professor of Biomaterials
Göteborg University, Institute of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Box 420, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
E-mail: PeterThomsen@dof.se
Web-site: www.biomaterials.gu.se
Dr. Thomsen completed an M.D. in 1981 and a Ph.D in 1988 with a thesis on leukocyte migration and activation induced by immune complexes. He became Associate Professor of Anatomy 1989. During 1989-1994 he held a Fellowship for biomaterials research with the Swedish Medical Research Council. He was appointed Professor and Chair of Biomaterials at the Göteborg University in 1994, successor of Professor P.-I. Brånemark. Since 1994, Dr. Thomsen is Secretary of the European Society for Biomaterials. He is a founder and Director of the Swedish National Biomaterials School Program (supported by the Foundation for Strategic Research) since 1997. Since the mid-1980s his research group has been working closely with research groups in Physics and Engineering. Studies are focussed on the implant-tissue interface in vivo, involving inflammation and tissue repair/regeneration adjacent to systematically-modified implant materials. Dr. Thomsen was Visiting Professor at Department of Histopathology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK, 1999-2000.
