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Anders Jahre's Awards for Medical Research

Anders Jahre's Awards for Medical Research honor research of outstanding quality in basic and clinical medicine. The prizes are awarded by the University of Oslo and are among the largest within Nordic biomedical research.

Winners 2023

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Professor Maiken Nedergaard and lektor Marcus Buggert. Photos: University of Copenhagent/Magnus Bergström

The 2023 Anders Jahre Award for Medical Research and its NOK 1 million prize was awarded to Professor Maiken Nedergaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Anders Jahre Award for young researchers and its NOK 400,000 prize was awarded to Assistant Professor Marcus Buggert, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.

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About the award

In 1953, Anders Jahre, a Norwegian shipowner, entrepreneur and philanthropist, donated one million Norwegian kroner to the University of Oslo, later followed by several additional endowments. These were used to establish the Anders Jahre Foundation for the Promotion of Science.

Previous prize winners

The Anders Jahre's Award for Medical Research was bestowed for the first time in 1960. Since 1965, the award has consisted of two prizes: a main prize and a prize for young scientists.

Contact

Nomination

Ingunn Rode Grorud
Tel: 23 07 13 72
i.r.grorud@medisin.uio.no

The Award Ceremony

The Prize Commitee