Tore Curstedt - The Basic Science Creator of Porcine Surfactant

In 1980, two exceptional scientists met for the first time when they were both working at the Karolinska In-stitutet. Tore Curstedt and Bengt Robertson began their extraordinarily successful and long-lasting collaboration to develop a high-quality surfactant preparation, which could be produced in a reproducible way in large quanti- Tore Curstedt was born as an only child in 1946 in Pitea, a small town in the north of Sweden, about 800 km from Stockholm. He went to school in his hometown and in 1965 he moved to Stockholm for medical studies at the Karolinska Institutet. He started his research career in the Department of Medical and Physiological Chemistry at the Karolinska Institutet where, in 1974, he defended his doctoral thesis on