The Arvid Carlsson Foundation has decided to award Christopher Gillberg at the University of Gothenburg the foundation's major prize for outstanding research in the spirit of Arvid Carlsson for the year 2024.
The Arvid Carlsson Foundation has decided to award Christopher Gillberg at the University of Gothenburg the foundation's major prize for outstanding research in the spirit of Arvid Carlsson for the year 2024. Gillberg is rewarded for how, through his extensive, thematically wide-ranging, and clinically highly relevant research, he has influenced the international understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism and ADHD. The prize consists of a research grant of 700,000 SEK. At the same time, Konstantinos Meletis at the Karolinska Institute and Dag Nyholm at Uppsala University were also appointed recipients of awards from the foundation. Meletis is rewarded for his skillful use of modern, sophisticated molecular biological techniques to address psychiatry-relevant questions in animal experimental studies. Nyholm is rewarded for his versatile clinical research focusing on Parkinson's disease, and notably for his valuable contributions to the important task of optimising the treatment of this condition. Meletis and Nyholm each receive a grant of 400,000 SEK. The award ceremony will take place in Gothenburg on May 30th.