Anne Spurkland

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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]

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References

  1. ↑ "64 kandidater har fullført medisinsk embetseksamen" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 4 February 1987.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Smedsrud, Morten S. (2020). "Med hjernen på rett sted". Apollon (in Norwegian). No. 3. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ "Medlemmer: Den matematisk-naturvitenskapelige klasse". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  5. ↑ Helland, Marit (9 April 2022). "Vil stoppe blokker på Hvalstad". Budstikka (in Norwegian). pp. 6–7.
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