Albert GjeddeCanadian Who is Who Key word search Albert GjeddeMarquis Who is Who, Keyword search Albert Gjedde is a Danish-Canadian neuroscientist. He is Professor of Neurobiology and Pharmacology at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Center of Neuroscience at the University of Copenhagen. He is currently also Adjunct Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery in the Department of Neurology, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Adjunct Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science in the Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, US, Adjunct Professor of Translational Neuropsychiatry Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, and adjunct professor of psychiatry at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, East Azerbadjan, Iran.
Born in the Copenhagen suburb of Gentofte in 1946, Albert Gjedde spent time as an undergraduate student in Berkeley, California, United States (1964–65, 1968), Stellenbosch, Cape Province, South Africa (1968), and Lexington, Kentucky, US (1969).
Albert Gjedde received his Medical Doctor (M.D). and Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degrees from Copenhagen University in 1973 and 1983, respectively. He did postdoctoral work in the Neurology Department of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center 1973-76 and held assistant and associate professorships in Medical Physiology at the University of Copenhagen 1976–1986.
As a junior investigator, Albert Gjedde worked as a visiting scientist at universities or research institutions in Lund, Sweden; Cologne, Leipzig, and Dresden, Germany; Paris, France; Szeged, Hungary; and Baltimore, Maryland, United States. In 1986 he joined the McConnell Brain Imaging Center at McGill University in Montreal where he held the post of Director between 1989 and 1994.About The BIC
As founder, Albert Gjedde headed the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Center at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark during the years 1994 to 2008,Rodell A.B. (2003)(ed.) På sporet af det indre liv. PET i Århus 1993-2003. Aarhus: Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fællestrykkeri Aarhus Universitet.ID Number: . and in this period he also founded the Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN) in 2001Kend dig selv, kend din hjerne. Information. and the Danish Neuroscience Center (DNC) in 2008,pet-centrets-arsrapport-2008-aarhus-universitetshospital/7 both at Aarhus University. Albert Gjedde joined the University of Copenhagen in 2008. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He is also Member of the Academy of Europe, the Daylight Academy, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Career
Research Albert Gjedde's research focuses on the relations between neuroplasticity and neurotransmission that can be revealed by mapping radioligand binding and the neuroplastic changes of brain functions. The investigations explore the relation between energy metabolism and neurotransmission by recording the changes of energy metabolism and consciousness under pharmacological and other manipulations. He uses PET to understand the synthesis of radioligand and tracer molecules that match the neurotransmitter molecules and the behavior of these transmitters under different functional conditions of the brain, normal as well as pathological, and the spatial and temporal relations among changes of cerebral blood flow, which is commonly used as a measure of brain work, and the cerebral oxygen consumption rate, which is the precise measure of this work. Albert Gjedde's collaborations focus on experiments with volunteer subjects and patients that explore the lesions and degeneration of brain tissue in disorders such as epilepsy, ludomania, Parkinson's disease, stroke, depression, and somatizing disorders, as well as disorders related to addiction. Experiments explore the restructuring of neuronal networks that follows when sensory activity is processed by healthy subjects or volunteers suffering from inborn or acquired lesions.
In 1977, with Clifford Patlak, Albert Gjedde described the Gjedde-Patlak plot, also known as Multitime Graphical Analysis (MTGA). The MTGA linearizes irreversible brain uptake of tracers in a manner that enables regression estimates to be made of uptake rates.
Current academic appointments Professor of Neurobiology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark,Albert Gjedde Copenhagen University since 2008 Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada,Albert Gjedde McGill University since 1994 Adjunct Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland, U.S.A., since 2006
Past academic appointments 1979–1981 Assistant Professor, Medical Physiology, The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 1981–1993 Associate Professor of Medical Physiology, The Panum Institute University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 1986–1987 Visiting Associate Professor, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada 1987–1989 Associate Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada 1989–1994 Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada 1989–1994 Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada 1993–1994 Adjunct Professor of Human Pathophysiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 1993–1999 MRC (Denmark) Professor of Brain Research, Aarhus University Hospitals, Aarhus, Denmark 1994–1999 Associate Professor of Human Pathophysiology, Institute of Experimental Clinical Research, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark 1994–2008 Director and Chief Physician, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Center, Aarhus General Hospital, Aarhus University Hospitals, Aarhus, Denmark 1999–2008 Professor of Medical Neurobiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark 2001–2004 Director, Centre of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark 2004–2005 Visiting Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, U.S. 2008–2014 Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience, University of Aarhus, Denmark 2008–2014 Chairman, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, since 2008
Current academic positions Albert Gjedde has through his career been taken different international academic positions in funding agencies, editorial- and advisory boards, council-, and committees and learned societies.Copenhagen University Albert Gjedde CV Today he takes following positions.
Editorial boards Member, editorial board, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and MetabolismEditorial office Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism since 1984–1988, 1998–2002, 2012- Member, editorial board, Acta Neurologica Scandinavica,Editorial Board, Acta Neurologica Scandinavica since 1998 Member, editorial board, Journal of Neuroscience Methods,Editorial Board Journal of Neuroscience Methods since 1990–1999, 2001-
Funding agency Danish National Expert and Delegate of the Horizon 2020 Programme Committee for Societal challenges (SC1), "Health, demographic change and wellbeing", EU, since 2014 Member of the European Research Council (ERC) Evaluation Panels, Life Sciences (LS7),ERC_2012_StG_Panel_Members 2012, 2014 and (LS 5) 2014ERC evaluation panels
Board, council, and committee Founder, International Symposia on Neuroreceptor Mapping (NRM) of the Living Human Brain,Founder of NRM Aarhus, Denmark 1997, subsequently held 1998, and every second year thereafter Executive Committee Member. European Dana Alliance for the Brain,Executive Committee EDBA since 1997 Member, Review Committee, International Symposium on Neuroreceptor Mapping (NRM) of Living Brain, Amsterdam, Netherlands, since 2014 Member, board of directors, Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark, since 2014 - 2015
Past academic positions
Editorial boards 1977–1979 Editorial Secretary, Volume VII (Medicine), Copenhagen University 1479–1979, volumes I-XIV, Treaties in Honor of the Quintcentennial Anniversary of Schola Hafniensis (Copenhagen University) 1986–1987 Supplement editor, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, Volume 7, Supplement 1, 1987 (XIII International Symposium on Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism) 1988–1992 Deputy chief editor, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 1988–2004 Associate editor, International Journal of Neural Systems. 1997 Proceedings editor, NeuroImage, Supplement 1997 (III International Symposium on Mapping of the Human Brain, Copenhagen). 1998–2011 Member, editorial board, NeuroImage 2003- Member, editorial board, Current Medical Imaging Reviews CMIR
Funding agency 1991–1994 Member, Neurosciences A Committee, Medical Research Council of Canada now Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) 1992–1994 Special Member, Neurology A Study Group, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, USA 1999–2005 Chairman, Research Funding Committee, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Denmark 2005–2010 Member, Medical Research Council, Denmark 2006–2010 Official Delegate, European Medical Research Councils, European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, European Union 2007–2010 Official Delegate Nordic Medical Research Councils, Nordic Council 2007–2013 National Expert, PC Health, The Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development (FP7)How is FP7 structured? 2013- National Expert, SCI Health, Horizon 2020
Board, council, and committee 1975–1978 Director/Trustee, American Field Service, Inc., New York, U.S.A. 1983 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, XI International Symposium on Cerebral Blood and Metabolism, Paris, France 1985 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, XII International Symposium on Cerebral Blood and Metabolism, Lund-Ronneby, Sweden 1986–1994 Member, Commission on Bioengineering in Physiology, International Union of Physiological Societies (IUPS) 1987 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, XIII International Symposium on Cerebral Blood and Metabolism, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1988–1994 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. 1989–1994 Member, U.S. Department of Energy Program Grant Advisory Board, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, U.S.A. 1989–1994 Member, U.S. National Institutes of Health Program Grant Advisory Board, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology and Radiation Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A 1989 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, XIV International Symposium on Cerebral Blood and Metabolism, Bologna, Italy 1991 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, XV International Symposium on Cerebral Blood and Metabolism, Miami, Florida, U.S.A. 1991–2006 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Axion Research Foundation (Yale Transplant Project), Hamden, Connecticut, and Basseterre, St.Kitts, W.I. 1993 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, XVI International Symposium on Cerebral Blood and Metabolism, Sendai, Japan 1995 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, I International Symposium on Functional Mapping of the Human, Brain, Paris, France 1995 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, XVII International Symposium on Cerebral Blood and Metabolism, Cologne, Germany 1996 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, II International Symposium on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.