Science Award - May 3, 2023
The first Obesity Prize for Excellence
In January 2023, the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) and the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF) announced that they were establishing a new prize for an agenda-setting researcher within obesity, the Obesity Prize for Excellence. Their first recipient has now been announced. It is Ruth Loos, Professor, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic […]
Science Award - March 14, 2023
She receives the Göran Gustafsson award in Molecular Biology
Tuuli Lappalainen, the Director of the National Genomics Infrastructure at SciLifeLab and Professor in genomics at KTH, recently received the Göran Gustafsson award for her research on the impact of genetic differences on gene expression regulation. Tuuli Lappalainen’s research group is investigating the role of genes and the environment in shaping human diversity. Small differences […]
Science Award - February 8, 2023
He is the winner of the Marie and August Krogh Prize
Henrik Toft Sørensen, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital, is receiving the 2023 prize, accompanied by 1.5 million DKK. He receives the Prize in recognition of his major contribution to epidemiological research in Denmark and internationally, describes Novo Nordisk Foundation in a press release. In 2000, Henrik Toft Sørensen established the […]
Science Award - November 21, 2022
She is the winner of the Novelties in Biomarkers award
Olink Holding has announced the 2022 winner of the young researchers’ award, Novelties in Biomarkers, Maria Martin-Grau at the University of Valencia, Spain. Novelties in Biomarkers is an annual award established in 2019 by Olink Proteomics with the purpose of encouraging and motivating young scientists in the use of biomarker discovery in their research. “To […]
Science Award - June 30, 2022
She is the winner of the European Inventor Award – Lifetime achievement
The European Patent Office (EPO) has honoured Hungarian-American researcher Katalin Karikó with the European Inventor Award 2022 in the category “Lifetime achievement”, for her seminal work in developing modified messenger RNA (mRNA) for vaccines and medical therapies. For more than four decades, Karikó has championed the therapeutic potential of mRNA, overcoming both scepticism and countless […]
Science Award - June 29, 2022
The winner of Lennart Nilsson Award 2022
Dr Martin Oeggerli at Micronaut GmBH, Basel, Switzerland, is this year’s winner of the Lennart Nilsson Award. Martin Oeggerli holds a PhD in medical molecular biology. Since 2005, he works as a freelance science photographer, collaborating with scientists in Basel and elsewhere. Bring out their inherent beauty Martin Oeggerli uses the scanning electron microscope to […]
