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This year’s Fernström Foundation Nordic Prize, with prize money of SEK 1 million, goes to the internationally renowned diabetes researcher Leif Groop from Lund University in Sweden. Leif Groop’s speciality has been referred to as ‘gene fishing’. It involves fishing up the genes that contAlready a subscriber Login You have…
Professor Miia Kivipelto, at the Karolinska Institute, department of neurobiology, nursing science and society has been awarded the Swedish Alzheimer fund's large research prize, of approximately SEK 2.5 million. Kivipelto receives the prize for her groundbreaking work about risk factors and contraAlready a subscriber Login You have read all your free…
Xiaowei Zhuang is the recipient of the 2017 Lennart Nilsson Award for making breakthrough discoveries in the beautiful world of cell biology, literally making the invisible visible, with the STORM technique that was developed in her laboratory. Xiaowei Zhuang is the David B. Arnold Professor of Already a subscriber Login You…
The Swedish Society of Medicine (SSM) has decided to award the Pasteur medal to Professor Didier Pittet, director of the Infection Control Programme at the Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine. The Pasteur medal is awarded every ten years and rewards basic discoveries in bacterioloAlready a subscriber Login You…
