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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.

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Winners 2023

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, donated one million Norwegian kroner to the University of Oslo.

Previous winners

The Anders Jahre's Award for Medical Research was bestowed for the first time in 1960.

Committee

The international prize committee consists of five members.