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ULLA HAMBERG biochemist 1918-1985 Daughter of a pharmacist in Turku, Ulla Hamberg first studied pharmacy and between 1948 and 1952 worked as a research associate at the Karolinska Institutet, a medical research institute, in Stockholm. Hamberg's research interests broadened towards biochemistry and she continued working abroad. In fact, she conducted research on three continents: in São Paolo in Brazil, at the University of Wisconsin and in Cleveland in the United States, and at the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Helsinki, where she completed her doctoral dissertation in 1962. Hamberg is best known for research on the vasoactive bradychinine peptide. All in all, she published about a hundred papers on peptide hormones and proteins of blood plasma. After her return to Finland, Hamberg was granted a fellowship by the Academy of Finland and she was appointed Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the Universities of Oulu and Turku. In 1976 she was appointed Professor Extraordinary in Biochemistry at the University of Helsinki.