This year´s Sjöberg Prize was awarded to professor Catherine J. Wu, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA “for discoveries concerning tumour neoantigens and the immune response to tumour cells as a basis for cancer vaccine development.”
On 12 April, Catherine J. Wu will give her Prize Lecture at Karolinska Institutet. The lecture is organised by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and The Sjöberg Foundation, with support from Karolinska Institutet.
Programme
11.00
Welcome and introduction of the Sjöberg Prize Lecture
11.15
Personalizing medicine through cancer vaccines
Sjöberg Prize Laureate 2024 Catherine J. Wu, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
12.00-13.00
Mingle and lunch
The event is free of charge and open to the public, registration is not required. The lecure will be recorded and later published on www.kva.se.
The Sjöberg Prize is awarded as a partnership between the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Sjöberg Foundation, with the Sjöberg Foundation financing the Prize.
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