Dimitris N. Chorafas Prize
The Prize (USD 5.000) is meant to reward pre-graduate scientific contributions within the doctoral education.
The prize will be awarded at the Installation Ceremony of Karolinska Institutet.
Prize winner 2023 - Sebastian Ols
Sebastian Ols at the Department of Medicine, Solna, is awarded the prize for his thesis ‘Cellular and molecular mechanisms for induction of broad anti-viral B cell responses through vaccination’
Prize motivation:
"Sebastian Ols recently successfully defended a thesis in vaccine immunology – a thesis in which he developed and refined methods to study how multivalent nanoparticle vaccine formulations enhance the priming of antiviral B cell responses. During his PhD-project he demonstrated remarkable scientific maturity, leadership, media proficiency, and most importantly an exceptional scientific output that could have high translational value."
Previous prize winners
2022 - Eivind Gottlieb
2021- Haohao Wu
2020 - Jiayao Lei
2019 - Gioele La Manno
2018 - Bianca Tesi
2017 - Arvid Guterstam
2016 - Alessandro Furlan
2015 - Miriam Elfström
2014 - Daniel Ramsköld
2013 - Maryam Derogar
About the Dimitris N. Chorafas Prize
The Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation was founded in 1992 and since 1996 the Foundation has a collaboration with 23 partner universities, including Karolinska Institutet. The subject area ‘medical science’ focuses on new PhD holders or doctoral students who are in the final phase of their doctoral work. The candidate should not have reached the age of 32 years at the time he/she is nominated to the prize.
The prize will be awarded at the Installation Ceremony of Karolinska Institutet.