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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 […]

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 […]

Emma Lundberg, Professor in Cell Biology Proteomics at KTH, Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Pathology at Stanford University, and Head of the Subcellular Section of the Human Protein Atlas, has been awarded the Göran Gustafsson prize in molecular biology. Emma Lundberg receives the prize for “pioneering work to develop technologies and analysis tools for large-scale […]

On International Women’s Day we like to highlight some of the many inspiring women in life science that we have had the opportunity to meet and interview. Within life science research Nordic Life Science has interviewed both young female scientists at the beginning of their careers as well as well-established female scientists – including several […]

Jens Bukh has contributed to giving thousands of people a better and longer life through his research within hepatitis C. Jens Bukh heads the Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program at the Department of Infectious Diseases at Copenhagen University Hospital, Amager-Hvidovre and the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at the University of Copenhagen. Hepatitis C can be […]