Jan-Åke Gustafsson

The grant was announced at a February 5, 2009, press conference by Rick Perry, Governor of Texas and running for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2012 presidential election.

The importance of research and scientific progress to the senior levels of the Texas government was illustrated by personal interest that governor Rick Perry took in the recruitment of professor Gustafsson and the establishment of the center.

His work at the University of Houston is focused on establishing academic and industry collaborations with the goal of finding new treatments for diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

Jan-Åke Gustafsson is the founder of Karo Bio AB, a biotechnology company listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and based in the Novum Research Park.

[4] In the mid-1990s, Gustafsson's research group at the Karolinska Institutet discovered estrogen receptor-beta, which plays a pivotal role in the function of the brain, lungs, and immune system.

Jan-Åke Gustafsson and APJ Abdul Kalam at the University of Houston Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling. Kalam served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He has an academic background as an Aerospace engineer , professor , and chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) and was awarded the Bharat Ratna , India's highest civilian honor in 1997.