Johan Stenflo

{{short description|Swedish chemist and teacher (born 1940)}}

Johan Stenflo (born 1940) is a Swedish chemist and teacher. He received his M.D. in 1968 and his Ph.D. in 1973 at Lund University, where he later became a professor of clinical chemistry.{{cite journal |vauthors=Kresge N, Simoni RD, Hill RL | title = The Finding That Prothrombin Contains γ-Carboxyglutamic Acid: the Work of Johan Stenflo|journal=Journal of Biological Chemistry |date=May 2009 | volume = 284 | issue = 18 | pages = e1 | url=http://www.jbc.org/content/284/18/e1.short}} In 1985, he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.{{cite web|url=http://www.vetenskapsakademin.com/en/Members/Kontakt-sida/?personId=210 |title=Johan Stenflo: Professor, Swedish Academy member. Elected to the Academy as a member number 1274 |publisher=Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717194607/http://www.vetenskapsakademin.com/en/Members/Kontakt-sida/?personId=210 |archive-date=2011-07-17 |url-status=dead }} He is also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.{{cite web|url=http://www.dnva.no/c26849/artikkel/vis.html?tid=40128|title=Gruppe 7: Medisinske fag|publisher=Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters|language=no|access-date=7 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927171110/http://www.dnva.no/c26849/artikkel/vis.html?tid=40128|archive-date=27 September 2011|url-status=dead}} In 1975, he published a classic paper on the biosynthesis of prothrombin.{{cite journal |vauthors=Fernlund P, Stenflo J, Roepstorff P, Thomsen J | title = Vitamin K and the biosynthesis of prothrombin. V. Gamma-carboxyglutamic acids, the vitamin K-dependent structures in prothrombin | journal = J. Biol. Chem. | volume = 250 | issue = 15 | pages = 6125–33 |date=August 1975 | doi = 10.1016/S0021-9258(19)41168-X | doi-access = free | pmid = 50323 }}

His doctoral students include Björn Dahlbäck.