Christer Betsholtz receives the Louis-Jeantet prize in medicine

2018-01-24

Christer Betsholtz is awarded the Swiss Louis-Jeantet prize for his research on how blood vessels are formed and function.

The prize is for 700 000 Swiss Franc and is awarded by the Louis-Jeantet foundation, which annually allocates 4.2 million Franc to promote biomedical research. This year’s second prize-winner is Antonio Lanzavecchia, head of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona, Switzerland. The prizes will be presented at an award ceremony in Geneva on 25 April.

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The funding agency Hjärnfonden has decided to award Niklas Dahl and Lars Feuk grants for research projects on epilepsy and schizophrenia respectively.

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2018-06-13

Lars Forsberg’s and Jan Dumanski’s research on how loss of chromosome Y in blood cells is can be associated with the generally shorter life expectancy for men was described in an article in New York Times on 11 June.

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Christer Betsholtz receives the Louis-Jeantet prize in medicine

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