Science Award - December 11, 2018
Novozymes Award to Matthias Reuss
On December 7, Professor Reuss, from the University of Stuttgart, received the Novozymes Award for Excellence in Biochemical and Chemical Engineering 2018. “We are awarding Matthias Reuss for his ground-breaking contribution to science of engineering, particularly his efforts on advancing the use of mathematical models to understand cellular metabolism, bioreactor mixing, and scale-up. This enables us to […]
Science Award - November 23, 2018
Jan Holmgren receives global health award
Professor Jan Holmgren at the University of Gothenburg is one of this year’s recipients of Prince Mahidol’s Award in Public Health. Prince Mahidol’s Award in Public Health is being awarded to Jan Holmgren and John Clemens for their ground-breaking research on “the development, evaluation and introduction of effective vaccines for combating cholera.” Holmgren is receiving […]
Science Award - September 24, 2018
Maiken Nedergaard receives the Nordic Fernström Prize
This year’s Eric K. Fernström foundation Grand Nordic Prize goes to neurology researcher Maiken Nedergaard, at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Rochester. Nedergaard has discovered and investigated how the brain gets rid of harmful products using its own purification system, the glymphatic system – knowledge that is significant in the context of […]
Science Award - July 25, 2018
Thomas Deerinck receives the Lennart Nilsson Award 2018
He gets the prize for developing novel microscopy techniques and methods to improve the ability to obtain information from biological specimens. Thomas Deerinck is a research scientist, technical specialist and bio-artist at the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Reseach (NCMIR) and the Center for Research on Biological Systems at the University of California, San […]
Science Award - June 26, 2018
Revealing the beautiful world of cell biology
Xiaowei Zhuang’s microscopy method, STORM, has revolutionized life sciences and enabled breakthrough discoveries, and for this work she was awarded the Lennart Nilsson Award 2017. Xiaowei Zhuang, the David B. Arnold Professor of Science at Harvard University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, developed one of the first single-molecule imaging methods to break the diffraction limit, i.e. an optical effect that limits the resolution of conventional light microscopes to a […]
Science Award - March 20, 2018
Research award to Vessela Kristensen
Professor Vessela Kristensen is awarded King Olav V’s Prize for Cancer Research for her research on breast cancer. Kristensen is a Professor at the University of Oslo, and associated to the Department of Clinical Molecular Biology at Ahus and Institute for Cancer Research at Oslo University Hospital. “This is overwhelming! A warm thanks to the […]
