Torsten Söderberg Foundation

Torsten Söderberg Professorial Chair in Medicine

Among other things, the Foundation finances the Torsten Söderberg Professorial Chair in Medicine, which is awarded after a peer-review process. The purpose of this funding programme is to support internationally leading scientists, by enabling the holder to devote full-time research to a Swedish medical faculty. The award includes SEK 10 million allocated over a five year period.

2023: Rickard Sandberg, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology – Deep dive into the human genome

2020: Birgitta Henriques Normark, Department of Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology – Research about bacteria causing pneumonia.

2019: Sten Linnarsson, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics – Creating a detailed map of the human brain.

2017: Thomas Perlmann, Department of Cell and Moleculas Medicin – Research on the development of dopamine producing neurons.

2015: Sten Eirik W. Jacobsen, Department of Medicine Huddinge – Studies of the development of normal blood cells and in cancer.

2013: Jonas Frisén, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology – Research on cell generation in the adult brain and spinal cord in human and animal, both under normal conditions and in injury and disease.

2012: Patrik Ernfors, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics – Clarifies how different neurons are developed and specialises on different types of sensory impressions, and how impulses are transferred in the nervous system.