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.[1]
The Nordic Fernström Prize (Nordiska Fernströmpriset) is awarded annually to an outstanding Nordic scientist in medicine. The prize money is one million krona (approximately €100,000). The last award (in 2010) went to Professor Professor Antti Vaheri from University of Helsinki. Antti Vaheri is a virologist and cell biologist and has during his long research career studied such diverse topics as vole viruses, dangerous ticks and extracellular matrix proteins. [2]
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:[3]