Winners of Anders Jahre's Awards for Medical Research

Since 1965 the Award has been split into two prizes, a Senior Medical Prize and a Young Scientist Prize.

2023

The Anders Jahre Senior Medical Prize

Maiken Nedergaard

Professor, University of Copenhagen

Nedergaard received the award forgroundbreaking research on the glymphatic system (the waste-clearance system of the brain), and for elucidating the function of astrocytes in health and disease.

The Young Scientist Prize

Marcus Buggert

Assistant professor, Karolinska Institute

Buggert receives the prize for his outstanding studies of how the immune system combats virus infections

2022

The Anders Jahre Senior Medical Prize

Harald A. Stenmark

Professor, University of Oslo

Professor Stenmark receives this award for his groundbreaking research on the structure and function of membrane proteins

The Young Scientist Prize

Lars Wiuff Andersen

Assistant Professor, Aarhus Universitet

Andersen was awarded the prize for his outstanding studies of treatments for cardiac arrest.

Lykke Sylow

Assistant Professor, Københavns Universitet

Sylow was awarded the prize for her outstanding studies of molecular metabolic causes of loss of muscle mass in patients with cancer and type 2 diabetes

2021

The Anders Jahre Senior Medical Prize

Poul Nissen

Professor, Århus University

Professor Nissen receives this award for his groundbreaking research on the structure and function of membrane proteins. 

The Young Scientist Prize

Barbara van Loon

Professor, NTNU

Van Loon receives the award for her studies of the cellular response to DNA damage and the importance this has for cancer and neurodevelopmental disorders.

2020

The Anders Jahre Senior Medical Prize

Jiri Lukas

Professor, University of Copenhagen

Jiri Bartek

Danish Cancer Society in Copenhagen and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm

Lukas and Bartek receive the award for their groundbreaking work in registering how proteins involved in the regulation of cell cycles and DNA repair contribute to protecting genes and preventing the development of cancer.

The Young Scientist Prize

Niklas Björkström

Karolinska Institute, Huddinge

Björkström received the award for his discoveries of how NK cells develop and function in physiological and pathological situations, especially in viral and malignant liver disease.

2010–2019

2019

• The Anders Jahre Senior Medical Prize: Professor Carl-Henrik Heldin, Uppsala University – for his pioneering contribution to understanding the relationship between cell growth factors and cancer
• The Young Scientist Prize: 
  • Dr. Jenny Mjösberg, Karolinska Institutet – for her study of a newly discovered cell type in the immune system that contributes to allergies and inflammatory diseases.
  • Dr. Lars Tjelta Westlye, University of Oslo – for contributions towards understanding how innate characteristics and personality traits can explain predisposition to mental disorders.

2018

• The Anders Jahre Senior Medical Prize: Professor Claes Ohlsson, University of Gothenburg – for groundbreaking studies of osteoporosis, with particular emphasis on the importance of hormones and genes
• The Young Scientist Prize:
  • Researcher Espen Melum, University of Oslo – for his research on the incurable liver disease PSC (primary sclerosing cholangitis)
  • Associate professor Martin Roelsgaard Jakobsen, Aarhus University – for his contribution to our understanding of how infections are detected and defeated by the immune system

2017

• The Anders Jahre Senior Medical Prize: Professor Christer Betsholtz, Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet– for his pioneering contribution to our understanding of how blood vessel networks are formed and function.

• The Young Scientist Prize:

  • Dr. Signe Sørensen Torekov, Copenhagen University – for her research on metabolism and diabetes

  • Professor Simon Bekker-Jensen, Copenhagen University – for his discoveries of cellular mechanisms that connect DNA damage and cancer

2015

• The Anders Jahre Senior Medical Prize: 
  • Professor Ludvig Sollid, Universitetet i Oslo – for his ground-breaking research into gluten intolerance, celiac disease
  • Professor Rikard Holmdahl, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm – for his ground-breaking research into rheumatoid arthritis

• The Young Scientist Prize:
  • Dr Kaisa Haglund, Oslo universitetssykehus – for her pioneering study of cellular mechanisms which control cell division and cancer development
  • Professor Pernilla Lagergren, Karolinska Institute – for ground-breaking research into factors affecting patient survival and quality of life after cancer surgery

2014

• The Anders Jahre Senior Medical Prize: Professor Kristian Helin, University of Copenhagen – for ground-breaking contributions to understand epigenetics.
• The Young Scientist Prize:
  • Associate Professor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institute – for outstanding contributions on studies of gene regulation and cancer
  • Professor Sampsa Hautaniemi, University of Helsinki – for outstanding research on systems biology and cancer

2013

• The Anders Jahre Senior Medical Prize: Professor Jens Juul Holst, University of Copenhagen – for his ground-breaking contribution to the treatment of type 2 diabetes (insulin-independent diabetes).
• The Young Scientist Prize: Professor Christian B. F. Andersen, University of Aarhus – for his structural determination of macromolecular complexes that are of importance for vitamin transport, haemoglobin metabolism and protein synthesis
• Professor Yenan Bryceson, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm – for his outstanding research into natural killer cells and congenital blood diseases

2012

• The Anders Jahre Senior Medical Prize: Professor Leif Groop, University of Lund – for ground-breaking research on diabetes, especially for his identification of hereditary factors that predispose to this disease group
• The Young Scientist Prize: 
  • Professor Tibor Harkany, Karolinska Institute – for his research on the brain’s endogenous reward molecules and how they regulate the functions of the central nervous system
  • Professor Kristian Pietras, University of Lund – for his research on mechanisms that regulate the blood supply to tumours and the prospect of targeting these in cancer therapy

2011

• The Anders Jahre Senior Medical Prize: Professor May Britt Moser and Professor Edvard I. Moser, Norwegian University of Science and Technology – for research on the structure and function of the central nervous system.
• The Young Scientist Prize: 
  • Professor Johanna Ivaska, University of Turku – for research on how cancer cells migrate and spread
  • Professor Søren Paludan, University of Aarhus – for his contributions to our understanding of how the defense against viralinfections

2010

• The Anders Jahre Senior Medical Prize: Professor Kari Alitalo, University of Helsinki – for his research on the formation and development of lymphatic vessels in health and disease
• The Young Scientist Prize:
  • Professor Robert Fenton, University of Aarhus – for his research on kidney function

  • Professor Mikko Niemi, University of Helsinki – for his contributions in the field of genetic variations in drug metabolism

1960–2009

See list over prize winners between 1960 and 2009 (in Norwegian)