The Karolinska Institute was founded in 1810 on the island of Kungsholmen in Stockholm, as the Kongl. Caroliska Medico Chirurgiska Institutet, for the training of army surgeons; it is Sweden's third oldest medical school, after Uppsala University (1477) and Lund University (1666), and today accounts for about 30 percent of medical training and more than 40 percent of academic medical and life science research conducted in Sweden. Since being asked to take on the role by the Nobel Foundation, a Nobel Assembly of fifty of the Institute's own professors has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, keeping the selection independent of the Foundation itself.
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Karolinska awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of streptomycin.
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Karolinska awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the isolation of insulin.
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The Karolinska Institute is a research-led medical school in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden and one of the foremost medical research institutes globally. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute awards the Nobel Prize
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The Karolinska Institute was founded in 1810 on the island of Kungsholmen on the west side of Stockholm.
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