Awards 2025
Awards at the Lund Spring Symposium 2025
The Bengt Samuelsson Award
Professor Katherine High
The Bengt Samuelsson Award is given to Professor Katherine High, Rockefeller University, NY, NY, USA for her work in the field of gene therapy. Her contributions have resulted in gene therapy-based treatments for several diseases, among them hemophilia A and B.
The Distinguished Service Award
Professors Jens Juul Holst and Stephen O’Rahilly
The Distinguished Service Award is shared between Professor Jens Juul Holst, Copenhagen University, Denmark and Professor Stephen O’Rahilly, University of Cambridge, UK. Holst co-discovered the hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a hormone that has an important role for various bodily functions and for the development of type 2 diabetes. O’Rahilly has made significant contributions to the understanding of genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying human disorders of energy balance and metabolism.
The Lund Spring Symposium Innovator Award
Dr. Clive Meanwell
The Lund Spring Symposium Innovator Award is given to Dr. Clive Meanwell, Population Health Partners, USA who has had a distinguished career with leading roles in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. He has been deeply involved in the development and commercialization of several important biopharmaceutical products.
The in Memory of Arvid Carlsson Award
Professor Craig Mello
The in Memory of Arvid Carlsson Award is given to Professor Craig Mello, University of Massachusetts, MA, USA for his discovery, with Andrew Fire, of RNA interference (RNAi). This opened a new field in biology and has resulted in a growing list of important medications based on the RNAi mechanism of action. He was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2006
The Sune Bergström Award
Professor Aviv Regev
The Sune Bergström Award is given to Professor Aviv Regev, currently Genentech, CA, USA for her pioneering scientific discoveries, particularly in the fields of single-cell genomics and systems biology. She has significantly advanced our understanding of cellular biology and provided powerful new computational and AI tools for biomedical research. Her work has broad implications for understanding human health and disease.
The Therapeutic Achievement Award
Professor Kevan Shokat
The Therapeutic Achievement Award is given to Professor Kevan Shokat, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA for his pioneering work in the field of chemical biology/genetics. For example, his work has been instrumental for what was previously thought to be an undruggable oncogene resulting in treatment of human cancers.
The Lund Spring Symposium Innovator Award
Dr. Clive Meanwell
The Lund Spring Symposium Innovator Award is given to Dr. Clive Meanwell, Population Health Partners, USA who has had a distinguished career with leading roles in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. He has been deeply involved in the development and commercialization of several important biopharmaceutical products.
The Award for Special Achievement
Professor Feng Zhang
The Award for Special Achievement is given to Professor Feng Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA who has made several major scientific achievements, particularly in the field of genome editing with CRISPR related techniques and in neuroscience with the development of optogenetics.
The Lund Spring Symposium Innovator Award
Dr. Clive Meanwell
The Lund Spring Symposium Innovator Award is given to Dr. Clive Meanwell, Population Health Partners, USA who has had a distinguished career with leading roles in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. He has been deeply involved in the development and commercialization of several important biopharmaceutical products.
The Therapeutic Achievement Award
The Therapeutic Achievement Award
In memory
In the memory of three Swedish Nobel laureates in medicine or psychology who made great contributions in areas in focus for this symposium.
Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson together with John Vane were awarded with the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 1982 “for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances”.
Arvid Carlsson together with Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel were awarded with the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000 ”for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system”.
