Department of Clinical Neuroscience

This year's winner of the Stora Psykologpriset 2023 is Erik Andersson, psychologist, PhD, docent in clinical psychology at Karolinska Institutet and chairman of the Swedish Association of Clinical Psychologists.

This year's KLOK award goes to the Optometry program, which together with the St. Erik Eye Hospital has developed a clinical training clinic where students from several educational programs can broaden and deepen their knowledge in an interprofessional learning environment.The clinical training clinic is a collaboration between KI and St.Erik Eye Hospital where different professions together supervise students from a number of educational programs in an interprofessional learning environment.

Simon Jangard, psychologist and doctoral student at CNS where he divides his time between the Division of Psychology and the Centre for Psychiatry Research, is awarded this year's Jörgen Engel scholarship for an article in which he investigated a number of different aspects of social decision-making in young people with alcohol use syndrome.

Pete Williams, associate professor and research group leader at Karolinska Institutet and St. Erik Eye Hospital, has been awarded 3 MSEK from the Strategic Research Area Neuroscience (StratNeuro) at Karolinska Institutet to develop methods for delivering neuroprotective drugs to the eye using nanocarriers.