Cecilia Lindskog awarded the Fernström Prize for Young Researchers
Cecilia Lindskog. Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt
Cecilia Lindskog is awarded the 2024 Erik K. Fernström Foundation’s Prize for young, particularly promising researchers for her outstanding systems biology research that can form the basis for advances in precision medicine.
Cecilia Lindskog is a research group leader at IGP where her research focuses on creating a map that shows the localisation of different proteins in human cells and tissues. She has also successfully led IGP’s activities in the Human Protein Atlas project, which in collaboration with KTH is creating one of the world’s largest biological databases.
The prize committee’s statement
“Cecilia Lindskog conducts outstanding research on molecular mechanisms that can form the basis for advances in precision medicine, especially linked to reproduction and cancer in male and female genitals. She uses a systems biology approach, combining single cell analysis and spatial proteomics with advanced bioinformatics, automated image analysis and machine learning.”
The Eric K. Fernström prizes
Every year, the Eric K. Fernström Foundation awards a Nordic prize to a medical researcher from one of the Nordic countries, as well as national prizes for young researchers at medical faculties in Sweden. The recipients of the national prizes are selected by committees at six medical faculties.
The prize amounts to SEK 100,000 and it will be presented at the Research Day in Lund on Wednesday 6 November 2024.