ABOUT KARL METTINGER |
(bMeeting Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden at State Visit in San Francisco February 2024
1960-63 Elite Award (best in Class /high school)
Nicolai School, Helsingborg, Sweden
1961 King Gustaf VI Adolf Scholarship (studies in Norway)
1962 Swedish Freemasons' Scholarship (college studies, Oxford)
1965-1966 Michael Hansen Award, University of Lund, Sweden
1971Prince Folke Bernadotte Award for Tropical Medicine studies, American University, Beirut, Lebanon
1976 Cofounder Stroke Unit Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm (First in Europe)
1979 Married to Australian Opera Singer Chesne Ryman, who had toured Australia with Bonynge, Sutherland and Pavarotti and sang the Queen of the Night's role in Mozart's Magic Flute, when Queen Elisabeth II
inaugurated the Sydney Opera House in 1973
1980 Acquired the refurbished 18th century villa and Music Pavillion on Tivoli Paeninsula across the water from Haga Casle. built in honor of King Gustav III's Court Composer / Conductor Joseph Martin Kraus. Hosted monthly concerts in collaboration with
the Friends of the Swedish Royal Opera
1983 -1986 Cofounder / President, Swedish Stroke Society, Lectured on Swedish TV 1
Met with Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, Industry Leaders, Secretary Nobel Foundation,
and Queen Silvia, who became the Patroness. Today 10,000 members in 81 Ch1988 "Biotechnology Applied to Medicine”, Silver Award Spanish Health Ministry
Part of Swedish State Visit, Helped organize Biotech Conference Opened by the Queens of Spain and Sweden
1999 Co-Chair, First International
Conference on the Essential Fatty Acid Balance -
Implications of the n-3 /n-6 Ratio for Brain Function and Health
Rosenstiel School of Marin Science, University of Miami, October 10-11, 1999
2004-05 Chair Maestro Mmichael Morgan's 15th Anniversary Committee. Helped raise $100,000 for performances of Bernstein's Mass May 2005 at Oakland Paramount Theater and organize preceding a interfaith community event
2005 Co-Chair UN60/Hammarskjold Centennial Concert, Paramount Theater, Oakland; October 23, 2005, in collaboration with Oakland Symphony, Cantare Con Vivo Community Choir, Preconcert Lecture by Count Wilhelm Wachtmeister, former Swedish Ambassador to US and Secretary of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold
2013 Co-Chair (interfaith Panel and Lecture, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, in Collaboration with Graduate Theological Union (GTU), Lund University Alumnae Association, Professor Jesper Svartvik, Swedish Theological Institute, Jerusalem
(November 2013)
EDUCATION
1973 MD University of Lund, Sweden
1971-73 Clinical Internships
1974 U.S. Education Council Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) certificate
1974-1978 Completed Residence in Neurology Karolinska Hospital and Board Certification Clinical Neurology (Sweden)
1982 PhD (Hematology/Neurology Stroke), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
ACADEMIC POSITIONS & LECTURES
1978-89 Lecturer / Associate Professor of Neurology Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
1993- 2000, Lecturer Pharmacology, University of Miami, FL
2001-2007 Lectures in the History of Biotechnology, University of California
San Francisco / BBAHMC Bay Area History of Medicine Club
LIFE SCIENCE INDUSTRY POSITIONS
1985-89 Medical Director / Deputy General Manager Kabi Hematology /Cardiovascular, Stockholm, Sweden
Kabi changed name to Pharmacia after taking control of hat cmpany subsequent merger with Upjohn
,Llater sold to Pfizer for 60B USD
1989- 2000. Medical /Executive Director, IVAX Corporation BCP/BNP, Miami, FL
Later sold to TEVA for >7 B USD
2000 - 2005 Sr VP. Chief Medical Officer, SuperGen, Dublin CA,
Later renamed Astex after takin cotrol of that company,
Sold to Otsuka for cclose to 1B USD
2005 -2011 VP, Chief Medical Officer Oncolytics Biotech, Calgary AB
2012-18 Founder & Principal, Progressive Clinical Partners LLC, Consulting firm, helped accelerate drug development programs in Bay Area Biotech Companie incl.
Pharmacyclics, sold to Abbvie for 21B USD in 2015
2011- Currently Chair, President & CEO, Cellastra Inc, San Francisco, CA www.Cellastra.com
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1978-1989 Lecturer in neurology and hematology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
1983-1989 Associate Professor, Clinical Neurology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
1985-87 Lecturer in Medical Ethics together with Professor Erwin Bischofberger, Stockholm Sweden
1993-1998 Supervised PhD dissertation in Healthcare Outcome Research (Michael. Karukin, Miami)
1993-2000 Lecturer in pharmacology at University of Miami
2000 –2007, Lecturer on History of Biotechnology at UCSF/ Bay Area History of medicine (BAHMC)
MEMBERSHIPS
(Past/Present)
American Academy of Neurology, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Hematology, American Association of Cancer Research, American Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians, International Society for Stem Cell Research, International Society of Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV).
BUSINESS & COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
2025 Registered The Karl Mettnger Foundation for support of young Musicians at SF Conservatory and Frost School of Music, UM, Miami
2020 – PRESENT President of Church of Sweden, San Francisco (Professor Barbro Osher, Consul General of Sweden, President Bernard Osher Foundation, honorary life time Board Member)
2011 - 13 Menber of the Board of Directors, New Spirit Community Church, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley
2003-2017, Chair Major Gifts Committee, Member Executive Committe /Board Member
Oakland Symphony/East Bay Performing Arts
2005 Co-Chair UN60/Hammarskjold Centennial Concert at Oakland Paramount Theater, with Oakland Symphony,
Cantare Con Vivo Choir, and 250 artists.
2006-2015 Member of Board / Advisory board UNA/USA/East Bay UC Berkeley. Helped organize Annual Global Citizen Award Banquets at International House University of California Berkeley
1999-2000. Member of the Board of Directors, Friends of Bass Museum, Miami Beach
1999-2000. Vice President Friends of Frost School of Music, University of Miami
1993 – Currently Member, Swedish American Chamber of Commerce
1990-91. Vice President, Florida Festival Philharmonic Orchestra, Fort Lauderdale & Palm Beach
First Sponsor of commissions to Maestro Ulf Bjorlin to compose Musical Portrait of Roul Wallenberg (Performed at Palm Beach Festival 1990 and Divina Commedia (1992)
1981 -82 Member of Guideline Committee for Stroke Intervention, Swedish
National Board of Health and Welfare, Drug Information Committee
1988. Member of Scientific Committee, "Biotechnology Applied to Medicine." in collaboration with
Consejo Superior de Investigationes Cientificas, Spain, which planned scientific symposium in Madrid during Swedish State visit opened by the Queens of Sweden and Spain
1978 -1986 Member Executive Committee ICCP (International Congress of Christian Physicians (some 20,000 members). Helped organize international conferences. Cooperated with some leaders and pioneers in international medicine, including Dr. Dennis Burkitt (cancer), Dr. Stanley Brown (leprosy), Dr. Hakan Hellberg (Director, WHO Project: Health to All by Year 2000). President of KLM (Kristna Lakare och Medicinare, Christian Medical Society, some 500 members), Sweden, 1983-1988.
!968-1983 Helped organize Third W0rld Medical Mission Concrences and Teach Ins in Lund (1968), Stockholm (1970)
sTIFTSGARDEN, Rattvik (1971), Nalen. with Stanley Brown, Stockholm (1975),
Research on Mission Hospitals -with Dennis Burkitt, Lidingo (19983)
Helprf organize Svenska Journalen shcolsrship proframs for young doctors to visit and work at Mission Heospitals
CHAIRMAN SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA
Co-Chair First International Conference on “The Essential Fatty Acid Balance – Implications of N3/N-6 Ratio for Brain Function and Health,” Department of Marine Biology and Ecology, University of Miami, 1999.
Cerebrovascular diseases and cerebral metabolism 31st Scandinavian Congress of Neurology, Linkoping, Sweden, 1996
co-Chair , International Symposium on Controversies in Coronary Thrombolysis with 500 attendees on June 27 1988 in Amsterdam just prior to the IX International Conference on Fibrinolytic Therapy.
Co-Chair International Symposium, Coronary Thrombolysis - Current Answers to Critical Questions
In Collaboration with Prof. Vijay Kakkar, THrombosis Research Institute. Kings College Hospital London
Paris 23-24 January, 1987 (350 attendees)
International Workshop: Coronary Thrombolysis, Clinical Thrombosis Research. World Congress of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Stockholm, 1982
“Vascular Accidents.” 11th World Congress of Neurology, Amsterdam, 1977.
PATENTS
1998 f CZ339299A3 Mettinger KL. Use of taxane for treating ovarian cancer
2001, JP2001114685Ar, Mettinger KL, Duchin K, Harriman G, Griffin S
Method and composition for treatment of aids-associated kaposi's sarcoma
2005, EP0793499A1 Sredni B, Bruckner HB, Albeck M. Whisnant J, Mettinger KL
Method and composition for reducing tumor development with a combination of a
taxane compound and a tellurium and/or selenium compound
2005, United States Patent US 6,977247 B2 Rubinfeldt J, Mettinger KL, Lyons J, Romel L
Sequential therapy comprprising a 200S amptothecan and a pyrimidine base analog
EDITORIAL AND PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE
Author or editor of 6 books
About 140 Peer-reviewed publications, abstracts or scientific reports.
Previous member Editorial Board International Journal of Translational Science
PERSONAL
Born: November 1, 1943 in Helsingborg, Sweden
Parents: Nils Allan Mettinger and Anna Katarina Meitinger (Born Hallberg), ran a bakery business in Helsingborg for 40 years
Brothers:
Tryggve Meitinger, Former Professor Old Testament, University of Lund and Princeton, See: Tryggve Meitinger Wikipedia and TryggveMettinger.com
Bengt Allan Meitinger, Auditor and CPA, Accounting expert and Retired, Previously Swedish Government (Bank Inspection) & Secretariat of Basel Committee, International Bank of Settlement (BIS)
Spouses
1979-95: Chesne Ryman (1935-2020), Australian Opera Singer, Pedagogue, ChesneRyman.com,
1998-2014Miki F Ilaw.(b1953 -): AIDS Research Nurse, Philantropist. Oblate Incarnation Monastery, Berkeley,CA
2018 - current: Oscar Aquino (b 1955, Partner, Chef, Caretaker, Home maker.
- SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS/AWARDS/
- RECOGNITIONS
1960-63 Elite Award (best in Class /high school)
Nicolai School, Helsingborg, Sweden
1961 King Gustaf VI Adolf Scholarship (studies in Norway)
1962 Swedish Freemasons' Scholarship (college studies, Oxford)
1965-1966 Michael Hansen Award, University of Lund, Sweden
1971Prince Folke Bernadotte Award for Tropical Medicine studies, American University, Beirut, Lebanon
1976 Cofounder Stroke Unit Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm (First in Europe)
1979 Married to Australian Opera Singer Chesne Ryman, who had toured Australia with Bonynge, Sutherland and Pavarotti and sang the Queen of the Night's role in Mozart's Magic Flute, when Queen Elisabeth II
inaugurated the Sydney Opera House in 1973
1980 Acquired the refurbished 18th century villa and Music Pavillion on Tivoli Paeninsula across the water from Haga Casle. built in honor of King Gustav III's Court Composer / Conductor Joseph Martin Kraus. Hosted monthly concerts in collaboration with
the Friends of the Swedish Royal Opera
1983 -1986 Cofounder / President, Swedish Stroke Society, Lectured on Swedish TV 1
Met with Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, Industry Leaders, Secretary Nobel Foundation,
and Queen Silvia, who became the Patroness. Today 10,000 members in 81 Ch1988 "Biotechnology Applied to Medicine”, Silver Award Spanish Health Ministry
Part of Swedish State Visit, Helped organize Biotech Conference Opened by the Queens of Spain and Sweden
1999 Co-Chair, First International
Conference on the Essential Fatty Acid Balance -
Implications of the n-3 /n-6 Ratio for Brain Function and Health
Rosenstiel School of Marin Science, University of Miami, October 10-11, 1999
2004-05 Chair Maestro Mmichael Morgan's 15th Anniversary Committee. Helped raise $100,000 for performances of Bernstein's Mass May 2005 at Oakland Paramount Theater and organize preceding a interfaith community event
2005 Co-Chair UN60/Hammarskjold Centennial Concert, Paramount Theater, Oakland; October 23, 2005, in collaboration with Oakland Symphony, Cantare Con Vivo Community Choir, Preconcert Lecture by Count Wilhelm Wachtmeister, former Swedish Ambassador to US and Secretary of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold
2013 Co-Chair (interfaith Panel and Lecture, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, in Collaboration with Graduate Theological Union (GTU), Lund University Alumnae Association, Professor Jesper Svartvik, Swedish Theological Institute, Jerusalem
(November 2013)
EDUCATION
1973 MD University of Lund, Sweden
1971-73 Clinical Internships
1974 U.S. Education Council Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) certificate
1974-1978 Completed Residence in Neurology Karolinska Hospital and Board Certification Clinical Neurology (Sweden)
1982 PhD (Hematology/Neurology Stroke), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
ACADEMIC POSITIONS & LECTURES
1978-89 Lecturer / Associate Professor of Neurology Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
1993- 2000, Lecturer Pharmacology, University of Miami, FL
2001-2007 Lectures in the History of Biotechnology, University of California
San Francisco / BBAHMC Bay Area History of Medicine Club
LIFE SCIENCE INDUSTRY POSITIONS
1985-89 Medical Director / Deputy General Manager Kabi Hematology /Cardiovascular, Stockholm, Sweden
Kabi changed name to Pharmacia after taking control of hat cmpany subsequent merger with Upjohn
,Llater sold to Pfizer for 60B USD
1989- 2000. Medical /Executive Director, IVAX Corporation BCP/BNP, Miami, FL
Later sold to TEVA for >7 B USD
2000 - 2005 Sr VP. Chief Medical Officer, SuperGen, Dublin CA,
Later renamed Astex after takin cotrol of that company,
Sold to Otsuka for cclose to 1B USD
2005 -2011 VP, Chief Medical Officer Oncolytics Biotech, Calgary AB
2012-18 Founder & Principal, Progressive Clinical Partners LLC, Consulting firm, helped accelerate drug development programs in Bay Area Biotech Companie incl.
Pharmacyclics, sold to Abbvie for 21B USD in 2015
2011- Currently Chair, President & CEO, Cellastra Inc, San Francisco, CA www.Cellastra.com
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1978-1989 Lecturer in neurology and hematology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
1983-1989 Associate Professor, Clinical Neurology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
1985-87 Lecturer in Medical Ethics together with Professor Erwin Bischofberger, Stockholm Sweden
1993-1998 Supervised PhD dissertation in Healthcare Outcome Research (Michael. Karukin, Miami)
1993-2000 Lecturer in pharmacology at University of Miami
2000 –2007, Lecturer on History of Biotechnology at UCSF/ Bay Area History of medicine (BAHMC)
MEMBERSHIPS
(Past/Present)
American Academy of Neurology, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Hematology, American Association of Cancer Research, American Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians, International Society for Stem Cell Research, International Society of Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV).
BUSINESS & COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
2025 Registered The Karl Mettnger Foundation for support of young Musicians at SF Conservatory and Frost School of Music, UM, Miami
2020 – PRESENT President of Church of Sweden, San Francisco (Professor Barbro Osher, Consul General of Sweden, President Bernard Osher Foundation, honorary life time Board Member)
2011 - 13 Menber of the Board of Directors, New Spirit Community Church, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley
2003-2017, Chair Major Gifts Committee, Member Executive Committe /Board Member
Oakland Symphony/East Bay Performing Arts
2005 Co-Chair UN60/Hammarskjold Centennial Concert at Oakland Paramount Theater, with Oakland Symphony,
Cantare Con Vivo Choir, and 250 artists.
2006-2015 Member of Board / Advisory board UNA/USA/East Bay UC Berkeley. Helped organize Annual Global Citizen Award Banquets at International House University of California Berkeley
1999-2000. Member of the Board of Directors, Friends of Bass Museum, Miami Beach
1999-2000. Vice President Friends of Frost School of Music, University of Miami
1993 – Currently Member, Swedish American Chamber of Commerce
1990-91. Vice President, Florida Festival Philharmonic Orchestra, Fort Lauderdale & Palm Beach
First Sponsor of commissions to Maestro Ulf Bjorlin to compose Musical Portrait of Roul Wallenberg (Performed at Palm Beach Festival 1990 and Divina Commedia (1992)
1981 -82 Member of Guideline Committee for Stroke Intervention, Swedish
National Board of Health and Welfare, Drug Information Committee
1988. Member of Scientific Committee, "Biotechnology Applied to Medicine." in collaboration with
Consejo Superior de Investigationes Cientificas, Spain, which planned scientific symposium in Madrid during Swedish State visit opened by the Queens of Sweden and Spain
1978 -1986 Member Executive Committee ICCP (International Congress of Christian Physicians (some 20,000 members). Helped organize international conferences. Cooperated with some leaders and pioneers in international medicine, including Dr. Dennis Burkitt (cancer), Dr. Stanley Brown (leprosy), Dr. Hakan Hellberg (Director, WHO Project: Health to All by Year 2000). President of KLM (Kristna Lakare och Medicinare, Christian Medical Society, some 500 members), Sweden, 1983-1988.
!968-1983 Helped organize Third W0rld Medical Mission Concrences and Teach Ins in Lund (1968), Stockholm (1970)
sTIFTSGARDEN, Rattvik (1971), Nalen. with Stanley Brown, Stockholm (1975),
Research on Mission Hospitals -with Dennis Burkitt, Lidingo (19983)
Helprf organize Svenska Journalen shcolsrship proframs for young doctors to visit and work at Mission Heospitals
CHAIRMAN SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA
Co-Chair First International Conference on “The Essential Fatty Acid Balance – Implications of N3/N-6 Ratio for Brain Function and Health,” Department of Marine Biology and Ecology, University of Miami, 1999.
Cerebrovascular diseases and cerebral metabolism 31st Scandinavian Congress of Neurology, Linkoping, Sweden, 1996
co-Chair , International Symposium on Controversies in Coronary Thrombolysis with 500 attendees on June 27 1988 in Amsterdam just prior to the IX International Conference on Fibrinolytic Therapy.
Co-Chair International Symposium, Coronary Thrombolysis - Current Answers to Critical Questions
In Collaboration with Prof. Vijay Kakkar, THrombosis Research Institute. Kings College Hospital London
Paris 23-24 January, 1987 (350 attendees)
International Workshop: Coronary Thrombolysis, Clinical Thrombosis Research. World Congress of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Stockholm, 1982
“Vascular Accidents.” 11th World Congress of Neurology, Amsterdam, 1977.
PATENTS
1998 f CZ339299A3 Mettinger KL. Use of taxane for treating ovarian cancer
2001, JP2001114685Ar, Mettinger KL, Duchin K, Harriman G, Griffin S
Method and composition for treatment of aids-associated kaposi's sarcoma
2005, EP0793499A1 Sredni B, Bruckner HB, Albeck M. Whisnant J, Mettinger KL
Method and composition for reducing tumor development with a combination of a
taxane compound and a tellurium and/or selenium compound
2005, United States Patent US 6,977247 B2 Rubinfeldt J, Mettinger KL, Lyons J, Romel L
Sequential therapy comprprising a 200S amptothecan and a pyrimidine base analog
EDITORIAL AND PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE
Author or editor of 6 books
About 140 Peer-reviewed publications, abstracts or scientific reports.
Previous member Editorial Board International Journal of Translational Science
PERSONAL
Born: November 1, 1943 in Helsingborg, Sweden
Parents: Nils Allan Mettinger and Anna Katarina Meitinger (Born Hallberg), ran a bakery business in Helsingborg for 40 years
Brothers:
Tryggve Meitinger, Former Professor Old Testament, University of Lund and Princeton, See: Tryggve Meitinger Wikipedia and TryggveMettinger.com
Bengt Allan Meitinger, Auditor and CPA, Accounting expert and Retired, Previously Swedish Government (Bank Inspection) & Secretariat of Basel Committee, International Bank of Settlement (BIS)
Spouses
1979-95: Chesne Ryman (1935-2020), Australian Opera Singer, Pedagogue, ChesneRyman.com,
1998-2014Miki F Ilaw.(b1953 -): AIDS Research Nurse, Philantropist. Oblate Incarnation Monastery, Berkeley,CA
2018 - current: Oscar Aquino (b 1955, Partner, Chef, Caretaker, Home maker.
