Sjöberg Prize

The Sjöberg Prize (Sjöbergpriset) is an award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on behalf of the Sjöberg Foundation since 2017 for scientific research in the field of cancer research . The award is endowed with US $ 100,000 for the winner (s) personally and US $ 900,000 in research funding.

The Sjöberg Foundation (Sjöbergsiftelsen) goes back to the Swedish logistics entrepreneur Bengt Sjöberg , who suffered from lung cancer in 2016 and died of the disease in early 2017. Sjöberg had made a fortune selling Svenska Godsbilcentraler to Danzas and Asia Pacific Cargo to Nippon Express . His share of the foundation's assets was two billion Swedish kronor (around 200 million euros). The Sjöberg Foundation concentrates on cancer research, further statutory fields of activity are health research and environmental research , and to a lesser extent also non-profit purposes in the fields of health and the environment.

Award winners

Each with a reason:

• 2017 James P. Allison , Tony Hunter , "for pioneering studies of cellular processes which led to the development of new effective cancer drugs."
• 2018 Zhu Chen , Anne Dejean , Hugues de Thé , "for the clarification of molecular mechanisms and the development of a revolutionary treatment for acute promyelocytic leukaemia ."
• 2019 Dennis Slamon , Brian Druker . "The two researchers have developed entirely new ways of beating cancer and have been revolutionary in the development of targeted treatments that improve the prognosis for, and survival of, thousands of patients."
• 2020 Michael N. Hall , David Sabatini , "for their discovery of mTOR and its role in the control of cell metabolism and growth."

Web links

• The Sjöberg prize at the Sjöberg Foundation (sjobergstiftelsen.se)
• Sjöberg Prize at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (kva.se)