Fernström Prize

The Fernström Prize (Fernströmpriset) is a series of annual awards for prominent Swedish and Nordic scientists in medicine. The prize money is donated by the Eric K. Fernström' Foundation. The prizes are managed by the medical faculty at Lund University.

There are two versions of the prize, both awarded annually – the main prize and a separate prize for particularly promising young researchers.

Nordic Prize
The Nordic Fernström Prize (Nordiska Fernströmpriset) is awarded annually to an outstanding Nordic scientist in medicine. As of 2023, the prize money is 500,000 krona (approximately €50,000).


 * Recipients of the Nordic Fernström Prize

• 1979: Anders Lundberg, Göteborg

• 1979: Mogens Schou, Århus

• 1980: Örjan Ouchterlony, Göteborg

• 1980: Carl-Bertil Laurell, Malmö

• 1981: Kari Cantell, Helsingfors

• 1982: Egil Gjone, Oslo

• 1983: Georg Klein and Eva Klein, Stockholm

• 1984: Peter Reichard, Stockholm

• 1985: Jens Skou, Århus

• 1986: Christian Crone, Köpenhamn

• 1987: Torsten Almén, Malmö

• 1988: Peter Perlmann, Stockholm

• 1989: Torvad Laurent, Uppsala

• 1990: Sten Grillner, Stockholm

• 1991: Inge Edler, Lund

• 1992: Jerker Porath, Uppsala

• 1993: Carl-Henric Heldin and Bengt Westmark, Uppsala

• 1994: Anders Bill, Uppsala

• 1995: Per Andersen, Oslo

• 1996: Johan Stenflo, Malmö

• 1997: Arne Holmgren, Stockholm

• 1998: Staffan Normark, Stockholm

• 1999: Keld Danø, Köpenhamn

• 2000: Hans G. Boman, Stockholm

• 2001: Bo Hellman and Claes Hellerström, Uppsala

• 2002: Birger Blombäck and Margareta Blombäck, Stockholm

• 2003: Lennart Philipson, Stockholm

• 2004: Jan Holmgren, Göteborg

• 2005: Kari Alitalo, Helsingfors

• 2006: Leena Peltonen, Helsingfors

• 2007: Felix Mitelman, Lund

• 2008: Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser, Trondheim

• 2009: Jan-Åke Gustafsson

• 2010: Antti Vaheri

• 2011: Anders Björklund

• 2012: Peter Arner

• 2013: Leif Groop

• 2014: Per Brandtzæg, Oslo

• 2015: Jens Juul Holst

• 2016: Jiří Bartek and Jiri Lukas

• 2017: Jonas Frisén, Karolinska institute.

• 2018: Maiken Nedergaard

• 2019: Søren Brunak

• 2020: no prize awarded

• 2021: Christer Betsholtz

• 2022: no prize awarded

• 2023: Harald Stenmark

Swedish Prize
The Swedish Fernström Prize (Svenska Fernströmpriset) is awarded annually to six promising Swedish scientists in medicine. The prizes are distributed so that each winner works in one of the six medical faculties in Sweden:


 * Gothenburg (University of Gothenburg)
 * Linköping (Linköping University)
 * Lund (Lund University)
 * Stockholm (Karolinska Institutet)
 * Umeå (Umeå University)
 * Uppsala (Uppsala University)