Paolo Chiesi, Douglas Easton, and Sophie Ekman appointed honorary doctors at Karolinska Institutet 2019
[PRESS RELEASE 2019-03-14] Three new honorary doctors have been appointed by the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. Paolo Chiesi, Douglas Easton, and Sophie Ekman will have their doctorates formally conferred at Stockholm City Hall on 10 May 2019.Paolo Chiesi has as part of the family company Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A. since 1987 supported research on surfactant. In the early 1980’s researchers at Karolinska Institutet developed a substance called Curosurf, intended on treating prematurely born children suffering from respiratory distress syndrome. Curosurf is derived from