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The Torsten Söderberg Foundation Welcomes a New Executive Director
The Board has appointed Sabina Andersson as the new Executive Director of the Torsten Söderberg Foundation. Sabina will assume her position on June 7, 2018, succeeding Marianne Raidna Lunde, who has served as Executive Director since 2010.
Torsten Söderberg, Academy Professor of Medicine, aims to enable the brain to repair itself following nerve damage
Thomas Perlmann, professor and research group leader at Karolinska Institutet, has been awarded the Torsten Söderberg Academy Professorship in Medicine for 2017 “for his groundbreaking research into how dopamine-producing neurons develop.” The grant amounts to 10 million kronor over a five-year period.
2018 Söderberg Prize in Medicine for research on alcoholism
Markus Heilig, Professor of Psychiatry at Linköping University, receives the 2018 Söderberg Prize in Medicine for important research contributions to the understanding of affective disorders and alcoholism.
"How to make police effective - study crime patterns, not individual cases"
The 2018 Stockholm Prize in Criminology is awarded to Professor Herman Goldstein for his global impact in streamlining and improving police work. The prize money is one million SEK.
The 2017 Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize to Norwegian lighting and furniture designer Daniel Rybakken
The Röhsska Museum’s selection committee for the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize, funded by the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, has decided to award this year’s prize of 1 million Swedish kronor to Daniel Rybakken.
Fairness diplomacy in the spirit of Pufendorf
On March 22, 2017, Professor Karin Aggestam gave the installation lecture "Diplomacy of Justice in a Turbulent World" as the new holder of the Pufendorf Chair at Lund University. Aggestam is the first political scientist and the first woman...
Torsten Söderberg's 2016 Academy Professorship in Medicine Awarded to a Bacteriologist
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award Fredrik Bäckhed of the University of Gothenburg the Torsten Söderberg Academy Professorship in Medicine for 2016 “for his groundbreaking discoveries regarding the importance of the gut microbiota for the body’s metabolism.” The professorship is intended to promote internationally leading research in medicine and...
Pre-school not good for everyone - how to drastically reduce the number of male violent offenders?
The Stockholm Prize in Criminology 2017 is awarded to Professor Richard E. Tremblay, Canada. Research on parenting, biology, schooling and crime prevention up to the age of 24 is rewarded.
The 2016 Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize to Danish textile designer Margrethe Odgaard
The Röhsska Museum’s selection committee for the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize, funded by the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, has decided to award Margrethe Odgaard this year’s prize of 1 million Swedish kronor.
He renewed the book industry
Apprentice bookbinder Peder Herzog (1838-1920) arrives in Stockholm from Germany in 1859. In Stockholm he starts a modest bookbinding business that within a few decades becomes the largest in the Nordic countries.
Cancer researcher Sten Eirik W. Jacobsen will receive the Torsten Söderberg Academy Professorship in Medicine in 2015
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award Sten Eirik Waelgaard Jacobsen of the Karolinska Institute the Torsten Söderberg Academy Professorship in Medicine for 2015 “for his groundbreaking studies of the normal maturation and malignant transformation of blood cells.”
Alzheimer's research awarded - Söderberg Prize in Medicine 2016 to Kaj Blennow
The 2016 Söderberg Prize in Medicine to Professor Kaj Blennow, University of Gothenburg, for outstanding and innovative research on Alzheimer's disease.
