Science Prize > Winners

For our 10th anniversary we did short interviews with previous winners to ask what winning the prize meant to them.

Chelsea Wood

2014 Category Winner

“The Science & SciLifeLab Prize changed the course of my career, put my aspirations within closer reach, and gave me the global perspective I needed to expand my network and research purview.  It also gave me memories I will treasure for the rest of my life – including attending the actual Nobel Prize Award ceremony.  I wouldn’t give that up for anything”

For our 10th anniversary we did short interviews with previous winners to ask what winning the prize meant to them.

Neir Eshel

2016 Grand Prize Winner

“It’s a win-win: either you get invaluable experience explaining your research to a general scientific audience, or you get this invaluable experience PLUS an extraordinary trip to Sweden!”

For our 10th anniversary we did short interviews with previous winners to ask what winning the prize meant to them.

David Seekell

2016 Category Winner

“The Science & SciLifeLab Prize provided visibility and credibility within my university at a critical stage of my academic career. I feel like I received extra support and flexibility that gave me the opportunity to develop and explore new questions in a way that was extremely rewarding”

For our 10th anniversary we did short interviews with previous winners to ask what winning the prize meant to them.

Mijo Simunovic

2017 Category Winner

“The Prize gave me the recognition and the assurance that I was on the right path. Today, I am fortunate to lead and collaborate with a talented group of engineers, developmental biologists, geneticists, and clinicians, all with a common goal of revealing secrets about our own development”

For our 10th anniversary we did short interviews with previous winners to ask what winning the prize meant to them.

Matthew Savoca

2018 Category Winner

“Personally nothing can top the trip to Sweden that is part of the prize. That was one of the most memorable weeks of my life. Getting to go to the Nobel Prize ceremony, meeting several of the Nobel Laureates, and later present my work on the same stage that they did was a surreal experience that I will never forget”

For our 10th anniversary we did short interviews with previous winners to ask what winning the prize meant to them.

Christoph A. Thaiss

2018 Grand Prize Winner

“One of the great opportunities of the application is to think about the big-picture implications of your work. This is something we scientists don’t do very often, but is actually critical not only for communicating our research to a broader audience, but also in terms of setting our own research goals and priorities”

For our 10th anniversary we did short interviews with previous winners to ask what winning the prize meant to them.

Orsi Decker

2020 Category Winner

“Apply! I had never thought I could get even close to winning any prize with my PhD essay, but somehow it happened. Maybe thinking about a topic for almost four years makes every PhD student the best candidate. Who knows, maybe you also get to travel to the winter wonderland of Stockholm!”

Winners

Biographies of winners should be accurate and reliable at the time of receiving the prize.

Biographies are not updated to reflect the winners’ further careers.