Anne Spurkland
Anne Spurkland (born 22 August 1960) is a Norwegian anatomist and immunologist.
She finished the cand.med. degree at the University of Oslo in the autumn of 1986.[1] In 1993 she delivered the doctoral thesis HLA Associated Genetic Susceptibility to Multiple Sclerosis and Coeliac disease, gaining the dr.med. degree.[2]
She became a professor at the University of Oslo.[2] In 2017 she issued her first popular science book, Immun. Kroppens evige kamp for å overleve about the immune system.[2][3] During the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway, Spurkland was often used by various media as an expert immunologist.[2] She is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[4]
Spurkland is married. In adopting children from Ethiopia, she learned Amharic.[2] Spurkland grew up at Hvalstad in Asker, also settling there. She has been an activist against high-rise development around Hvalstad Station.[5] In having engaged herself with coeliac disease, she has also issued a cookbook of gluten-free cakes, Frie kaker, on the publishin house Spartacus in 2011.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "64 kandidater har fullført medisinsk embetseksamen" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 4 February 1987.
- ^ a b c d e f Smedsrud, Morten S. (2020). "Med hjernen på rett sted". Apollon (in Norwegian). No. 3. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ^ Lægreid, Ingvild J. (2018). "Immun: vær så god!". Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association (in Norwegian) (10). doi:10.4045/tidsskr.18.0171. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ^ "Medlemmer: Den matematisk-naturvitenskapelige klasse". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ^ Helland, Marit (9 April 2022). "Vil stoppe blokker på Hvalstad". Budstikka (in Norwegian). pp. 6–7.
