Dr. Cecilia Lindskog, a research group leader at Uppsala University and director of the Uppsala site of the HPA project, has been awarded the 2024 Erik K. Fernström Foundation's Prize for young, particularly promising researchers.

The Eric K. Fernström Foundation yearly awards a Nordic prize to a medical researcher from one of the Nordic countries, as well as national prizes for young researchers at medical faculties in Sweden. Cecilia Lindskog receives the prize for her outstanding systems biology research that can form the basis for advances in precision medicine.

Cecilia Lindskog received her PhD in Pathology at Uppsala University in 2013, and her research focuses on creating a map that shows the localisation of different proteins in human cells and tissues. Since 2014 she also leads the team that generates and evaluates mRNA and protein expression data in human tissues within the Human Protein Atlas project, which in collaboration with KTH is creating one of the world's largest biological databases.

The prize committee's statement

"Cecilia Lindskog conducts outstanding research on molecular mechanisms that can form the basis for advances in precision medicine, especially linked to reproduction and cancer in male and female genitals. She uses a systems biology approach, combining single cell analysis and spatial proteomics with advanced bioinformatics, automated image analysis and machine learning."

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