Sjöberg Prize
The Sjöberg Prize is an annual international prize in cancer research awarded to individual researchers or research groups. The prize amounts to one million US dollars, of which 100,000 US dollars is the prize sum and 900,000 US dollars is funding for future research.
Sjöberg Laureate brings new hope to people with lung cancer
This year’s Sjöberg Prize of one million dollars is awarded to professor Kevan Shokat, University of California, USA. Ten years ago, he became the first person to succeed in blocking one of the mutated proteins that cause most cancer cases. This is a huge scientific breakthrough that is bringing hope to people who are critically ill with lung cancer.
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Contact: Lotta Johansson, Prize Administrator, info@sjobergprize.se