Swedish medical doctor and researcher
Carl-Bertil Laurell Carl-Bertil Laurell (born 28 June 1919 in Uppsala , died 18 September 2001 in Malmö )[ 1] Swedish medical doctor and researcher. Laurell was Professor of clinical chemistry at Lund University . He named the blood plasma protein transferrin , and discovered that an inherited lack of alpha-1 antitrypsin could lead to emphysema .[ 2]
In 1976, he was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .
Laurell received the Nordic Fernström Prize in 1980, and received the Edwin F. Ullman Award from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry on 4 May 2001.[ 3]
He was married to Anna-Britta Laurell, Professor of immunology at Lund university, from 1946 until her death in 2000. The couple had six children.[ 4]
A street at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö is named after him.
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