Nordic Medical Prize

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The Nordic Medical Prize (Swedish Nordiska medicinpriset) is a Swedish prize in medicine awarded by the SalusAnsvar/Ulf Nilsonnes Foundation for Medical Research in cooperation with the insurance company Folksam. It is the second largest medical award in the Nordic countries, after the Nobel Prize in Medicine, and includes a monetary prize of one million Swedish kronor. The prize has been awarded since 1998.

Recipients

1998 – Lars Wallentin

1999 – Björn Rydevik

2000 – Jörgen Engel

2002 – Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale

2003 – Rikard Holmdahl and Andrej Tarkowski

2004 – Ulf Lerner and Jukka H. Meurman

2005 – Peter Arner

2006 – Claes Ohlsson and Kalervo Väänänen

2007 – Thomas Sandström

2010 – Markku Kaste, Perttu J. Lindsberg and Turgut Tatlisumak

2012 – Ola Didrik Saugstad

2013 – Eija Kalso and Eva Kosek

2014 – Erkki Isometsä and Gerhard Andersson

2015 – Lars Engelbretsen, Roald Bahr, Jón Karlsson and Michael Kjær

References

Nordic Medical Prize Wikipedia

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