Albert Gjedde Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

As founder, Albert Gjedde headed the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Center at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark during the years 1994 to 2008, and in this period he also founded the Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN) in 2001 and the Danish Neuroscience Center (DNC) in 2008, both at Aarhus University. Albert Gjedde joined the University of Copenhagen in 2008. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He is also Member of the Academy of Europe, the Daylight Academy, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

As a junior investigator, Albert Gjedde worked as a visiting scientist at universities or research institutions in Lund, Sweden; Cologne, Leipzig, and Dresden, Germany; Paris, France; Szeged, Hungary; and Baltimore, Maryland, United States. In 1986 he joined the McConnell Brain Imaging Center at McGill University in Montreal where he held the post of Director between 1989 and 1994.

In 1977, with Clifford Patlak, Albert Gjedde described the Gjedde-Patlak plot, also known as Multitime Graphical Analysis (MTGA),. The MTGA linearizes irreversible brain uptake of tracers in a manner that enables regression estimates to be made of uptake rates.

Albert Gjedde received his Medical Doctor (M.D). and Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degrees from Copenhagen University in 1973 and 1983, respectively. He did postdoctoral work in the Neurology Department of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center 1973-76 and held assistant and associate professorships in Medical Physiology at the University of Copenhagen 1976–1986.

Born in the Copenhagen suburb of Gentofte in 1946, Albert Gjedde spent time as an undergraduate student in Berkeley, California, United States (1964–65, 1968), Stellenbosch, Cape Province, South Africa (1968), and Lexington, Kentucky, US (1969).