NLS Science Award

Professor David Eisenberg, University of California in Los Angeles, USA, has been awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Doctor Maximilian Ackermann, currently working as a Professor of Pathology at the RWTH University Clinics Aachen and Helios University Hospital Wuppertal, Germany, and as anatomist at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is awarded the 2025 Lennart Nilsson Award for his outstanding contributions to scientific imaging, revealing critical insights into diseases, such as COVID-19 and cancer.

Professor Kirsi Pietiläinen, Professor of Clinical Metabolism at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, receives the prize for her outstanding work in clinical metabolism.

Miriam Merad is awarded the Sjöberg Prize, worth USD one million, for her discovery of new targets for cancer therapies in the immune system.

The Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis 2025, worth SEK six million, is awarded to Christopher Goodnow, Australia, and David Nemazee, USA. 

The Hans Wigzell Research Foundation's scientific prize 2024 of SEK 1 million has been awarded to Mia Phillipson and Evelina Vågesjö for their research concerning the understanding and treatment of damaged tissue in humans.