Ulf Nilsson wins Ulla and Stig Holmquist Science Prize in Organic Chemistry
The prize will be presented during Uppsala University’s annual awards ceremony on 7 October. Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt
Professor Ulf Nilsson, Lund University, is awarded the 2024 Ulla and Stig Holmquist Science Prize in Organic Chemistry. He receives the prize for his studies of new carbohydrate-based molecules, which can be used as drug candidates and in other contexts. The prize is worth SEK 1,500,000.
Professor Ulf Nilsson, Lund University. Photo: Tove Smeds
The 2024 Ulla and Stig Holmquist Science Prize in Organic Chemistry is awarded to Professor Ulf Nilsson of Lund University for his pioneering and elegant research. Nilsson has developed new selective methods for the organic synthesis of carbohydrates and their derivatives, and produced new carbohydrate-based molecules for the study of carbohydrate-protein interactions and as drug candidates. The research is of the highest international calibre. Nilsson is also an entrepreneur who has helped build up companies in the field.
The Ulla and Stig Holmquist Science Prize in Organic Chemistry is considered one of the major science prizes in Sweden and is awarded annually “to a researcher in the field of organic chemistry whose main work has been done in Sweden and who has done pioneering work in that discipline.”
The prize will be presented during Uppsala University’s annual awards ceremony on 7 October. The prize money comes from the Ulla and Stig Holmquist Science Prize in Organic Chemistry Foundation and is paid out by the Uppsala University Foundations Management of Estates and Funds.
Annica Hulth