Fernström Prize
The Fernström Prize (Swedish: Fernströmpriset) is a series of annual awards for prominent Swedish and Nordic scientists in medicine. The prize money is donated by the Eric K. Fernström' Foundation. The prizes are managed by the medical faculty at Lund University.[1]
Nordic Prize
The Nordic Fernström Prize (Nordiska Fernströmpriset) is awarded annually to an outstanding Nordic scientist in medicine. The prize money is one million krona (approximately €100,000). The last award (in 2010) went to Professor Professor Antti Vaheri from University of Helsinki. Antti Vaheri is a virologist and cell biologist and has during his long research career studied such diverse topics as vole viruses, dangerous ticks and extracellular matrix proteins.[2]
- Recipients of the Nordic Fernström Prize
Source: Lunds University
- 2015 Jens Juul Holst
- 2014 Per Brandtzæg, Oslo
- 2013 Leif Groop
- 2012 Peter Arner
- 2011 Anders Björklund
- 2010 Antti Vaheri
- 2009 Jan-Åke Gustafsson
- 2008 Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser, Trondheim
- 2007 Felix Mitelman, Lund
- 2006 Leena Peltonen, Helsingfors
- 2005 Kari Alitalo, Helsingfors
- 2004 Jan Holmgren, Göteborg
- 2003 Lennart Philipson, Stockholm
- 2002 Birger Blombäck and Margareta Blombäck, Stockholm
- 2001 Bo Hellman and Claes Hellerström, Uppsala
- 2000 Hans G. Boman, Stockholm
- 1999 Keld Danø, Köpenhamn
- 1998 Staffan Normark, Stockholm
- 1997 Arne Holmgren, Stockholm
- 1996 Johan Stenflo, Malmö
- 1995 Per Andersen, Oslo
- 1994 Anders Bill, Uppsala
- 1993 Carl-Henric Heldin and Bengt Westmark, Uppsala
- 1992 Jerker Porath, Uppsala
- 1991 Inge Edler, Lund
- 1990 Sten Grillner, Stockholm
- 1989 Torvad Laurent, Uppsala
- 1988 Peter Perlmann, Stockholm
- 1987 Torsten Almén, Malmö
- 1986 Christian Crone, Köpenhamn
- 1985 Jens Skou, Århus
- 1984 Peter Reichard, Stockholm
- 1983 Georg Klein and Eva Klein, Stockholm
- 1982 Egil Gjone, Oslo
- 1981 Kari Cantell, Helsingfors
- 1980 Carl-Bertil Laurell, Malmö
- 1980 Örjan Ouchterlony, Göteborg
- 1979 Mogens Schou, Århus
- 1979 Anders Lundberg, Göteborg
Swedish Prize
The Swedish Fernström Prize (Svenska Fernströmpriset) is awarded annually to six promising Swedish scientists in medicine. The prizes are distributed so that each winner works in one of the six medical faculties in Sweden:[3]
- Gothenburg (University of Gothenburg)
- Linköping (Linköping University)
- Lund (Lund University)
- Stockholm (Karolinska Institutet)
- Umeå (Umeå University)
- Uppsala (Uppsala University)