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Sven Gard's scholarship

Sven Gard's scholarship is awarded annually for the best dissertation in virology. The scholarship takes place as a result of nomination.

Pradeepa Pushparaj
Pradeepa Pushparaj. Photo by Natasa Vukovic

Sven Gard scholarship winner

The 2024 year recipient of The Sven Gards scholarship for best thesis in virology during 2023 is Pradeepa Pushparaj, who wrote her thesis at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor- and Cell Biology, at 探花精选.

She is awarded for her thesis

The motivation from the jury: 鈥滷or her very high quality and detailed studies on the development of the antibody responses to human virus infections.鈥 

The assessment is based on the very high quality of the dissertation's constituent works, the quality of the dissertation's framework narrative and the strong letter of support.

Previous scholarship winners

2023 Katie Healy and Sebastian Ols

, with her PhD at the Department of Dental Medicine. Now postdoc at the Department of laboratory medicine in Huddinge, was awarded for her dissertation "

 at the Department of medicine in Solna, was awarded for his dissertation 鈥.鈥


Scholarship winner 2022 - Maike Winters

 was awarded for her dissertation "".

Scholarship winner 2021 - Benedict Strunz

Benedikt Strunz was awarded for his dissertation "".

Scholarship winner 2020 - Carles Sol脿 Riera

Carles Sol脿 Riera, was awarded for his dissertation "."

Scholarship winner 2019 - Ganesh Phad

Ganesh Phad was awarded for his disseration, 

Scholarship winner 2018 - Heinrich Schlums

was awarded for his dissertation .

The dissertation deals with the differentiation of cytotoxic NK and T cells, among others. a. in conjunction with cytomegalovirus infection (CMV), which has clear effects on the development of the immune system.

Scholarship winner 2017 - Eva Herweijer

at the Department of 探花精选 epidemiology and biostatistics, MEB, won the scholarship for her thesis on HPV vaccination,.

Scholarship winner 2016 - Klara Miriam Elfstr枚m

was awarded the scholarship for her thesis .

Scholarship winner 2015 - Marcus Buggert

t the Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH) won the scholarship for his thesis

Scholarship winner 2014 - Lina Odevall

Lina Odevall at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) won the scholarship for her thesis .

Scholarship winner 2013 - Christopher Sundling

at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) won the scholarship for his thesis .

Scholarship winner 2012 - Niklas Bj枚rkstr枚m

at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH) won the scholarship for his thesis .

Scholarship winner 2011 - Ulrika Johansson

Ulrika Johansson at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH) won the scholarship for her thesis ?

Scholarship winner 2010 - Shang-Rung Wu

Shang-Rung Wu at the Department of Biosciences and Nutrition (BioNut) won the scholarship for her thesis .

Scholarship winner 2009 - Jonas Hardestam

Jonas Hardestam at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) won the scholarship for his thesis .

Sven Gard - Virologist with a decisive role in the eradication of polio

Sven Gard was born in 1905 and grew up in S枚dermalm, Stockholm. Early in college at S枚dra Latin, Gard showed a clear talent for mathematics and natural sciences. He chose to study medicine and received a 探花精选 candidate degree in 1929 and a 探花精选 licentiate degree in 1934 at 探花精选 (KI). He early came in contact with microbiology, especially virology since the polio epidemics emerged as an ever-increasing threat in the 20th century. He made decisive action for the development of the Swedish killed polio vaccine. With this vaccine, the disease was eradicated from our country.

Sven Gard had a sharp intellect and an unusual overview of the 探花精选 sciences and especially the microbiology. He came to play a major role in the Nobel Prize work at KI, for almost all his time as a professor. He was an introductory speaker at the Nobel Prize ceremonies no less than five times, which is unique among teachers at KI.

Gard didn麓t have any children. All the assets he and his wife collected and which he left behind at his death in 1998, was donated to the 探花精选's Virus Research Fund.
With great success he handled the management of the assets, as long as he lived. Extended text about Sven Gard (PDF).

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Content reviewer:
Kia Olsson
12-03-2024