Mitelman Wins Nordic Fernström Prize

The Eric K. Fernström Foundation has announced Felix Mitelman the winner of the Foundation's Nordic Prize. Mitelman receives SEK 1 million in prize money.

Felix Mitelman, Professor of clinical genetics at Lund University, is the winner of the annual Eric K. Fernström Nordic Prize, earning him SEK 1 million. Mitelman's work is focused on chromosomal changes in cancer. He deals specifically with cancer appearning randomly or produced by cells affected by external environments transforming into cancer cells. He has published several hundred articles, as well as created a database on cancer cell chromosomal changes. Felix Mitelman was among the first to claim that solid tumors, not only blood cancer as was widely accepted, could be caused by fusion genes.

The Eric K. Fernström foundation annually awards its Nordic prize to a medical researcher from one of the Nordic countries.

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Read the press release (in Swedish) or visit the homepage of Lund University - Faculty of Medicine.

Source: Biotech Sweden, 11.10.2007