Lennart Philipson

Carl Lennart Philipson (July 16, 1929 – June 26, 2011) was a Swedish virologist and professor at Karolinska Institute.

Philipson earned his MD in 1957 and PhD in 1958 at Uppsala University, working with Arne Tiselius.

In 1982, he was appointed to be the second director general of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), which he ran until 1993.

After five years, he returned to Sweden to join the Karolinska Institute, where he remained until his death in 2011.

It is now run by his widow, and awards prizes to promising graduate students and postdocs.