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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.
Research on parental influence on criminal behavior rewarded
How can parents prevent their children from committing crimes? The 2016 Stockholm Prize in Criminology is shared by Travis Warren Hirschi (USA), Cathy Spatz Widom (USA) and Per-Olof Wikström (Sweden).
The 2015 Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize to Finnish designer Ilkka Suppanen
The Röhsska Museum’s award committee has decided to award Finnish designer Ilkka Suppanen the 2015 Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize, worth one million Swedish kronor.
From funnel cups to free ceramics
The book Keramik och porslin i Sverige genom 7000 år was published in October 2015 by Carlsson bokförlag. It comprises 400 pages and is richly illustrated with nearly 1200 images, of which over 800 are of objects in color,...
Development of the credit market in Gothenburg in the 19th century
The book "Krona eller klave" deals with the credit market in 19th century Gothenburg.
Criminologists Ronald V. Clarke and Patricia Mayhew receive the 2015 Stockholm Prize in Criminology
Opportunity makes the criminal - the theory behind effective crime prevention is rewarded. The 2015 Stockholm Prize in Criminology goes to Ronald V. Clarke and Patricia Mayhew from the UK.
Culture-free identification of antibiotic resistance
Bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics is a growing problem in society. In April 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified antibiotic resistance as a global problem.
The 2015 Söderberg Prize for research in behavioral economics
The Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien has decided to award the 2015 Söderberg Prize in Economic Sciences to Tore Ellingsen and Magnus Johannesson, both at the Stockholm School of Economics, for their joint and influential work in the field of behavioral economics.
Torsten Söderberg's 2014 Academy Professorship in Medicine Awarded to Alzheimer's Researcher
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award Kaj Blennow of the University of Gothenburg the Torsten Söderberg Academy Professorship in Medicine for 2014. The professorship is intended to promote internationally leading research in medicine and is endowed with a total of 10 million kronor.
The 2014 Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize was awarded to Swedish fashion designer Ann-Sofie Back
The Röhsska Museum’s selection committee for the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize has decided to award this year’s prize, worth one million Swedish kronor, to Ann-Sofie Back.
A new take on Icelandic fairy tales
On April 28, 2014, a long-awaited new translation of the Icelandic family sagas into Swedish, Danish and Norwegian was presented at the meeting of the Nordic Council of Ministers in Reykjavík. The translation work has been one of the largest ever undertaken...
