NLS Profiles in Science

It’s one thing to “do” physics – but it’s another to explain its fundamentals to others, and the role that physics and other sciences play in their lives.

Dr. Joanna Rorbach, principal researcher at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at Karolinska Institutet, has been awarded the prestigious Göran Gustafsson Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien).

With a family legacy in medicine dating back to the Shogun era, the Japanese immunologist Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi has dedicated his career to the science. A 30-year-old pivotal discovery led him to this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research in peripheral immune tolerance.

Nobel Prize laureate Mary E. Brunkow’s career path has shifted between industry and academia but her end goal to generate clinical benefit and her passion for exploring new areas have never wavered.

The only thing Frederick J. Ramsdell does better than scientific research is drop off the grid.

Lund University’s famous Alzheimer's researcher, Oskar Hansson, took on a new role in the pharmaceutical industry last year and is today tackling the same challenge from a different angle.