Dr Ragnar Mørk´s Prize for Excellent Cancer Research 2025 to Sigrid Skånland

From the ceremony (photo: Artur Cieslar-Pobuda)
From the ceremony (photo: Artur Cieslar-Pobuda)

Dr. Sigrid Skånland from the Department of Cancer Immunology at the Institute for Cancer Research received Dr. Ragnar Mørk´s Prize for Excellent Cancer Research 2025.

She won the prize for her ground-breaking research on haematological cancers, especially for her studies on precision medicine in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, CLL.

The prize ceremony took place on Friday 21st November in the Auditorium of the New Radium Hospital, L1.

Program:
14:30 Introduction about Dr. Ragnar Mørk’s Prize by the legacy’s business manager, Carl Rieber-Mohn
14:40 Introduction of the prize winner by the chair of the prize committee, Harald Stenmark
14:45 Prize winner’s lecture
15:15 Coffee and cake will be available for everyone after the lecture.

Prize committee: Harald Stenmark, Gunhild Mælandsmo, Olav Klingenberg, Rolf I. Skotheim
Business manager: Carl Rieber-Mohn

From the ceremony (photos: Artur Cieslar-Pobuda and Pilar Ayuda Duran)

From left: Harald A. Stenmark, Sigrid S. Skånland and Carl Rieber-Mohn. Photo: Artur Cieslar-Pobuda
Photo: Artur Cieslar-Pobuda
Photo: Artur Cieslar-Pobuda
With Harald Stenmark. Photo: Pilar Ayuda Duran
Photo: Pilar Ayuda Duran
From left: Harald A. Stenmark, Sigrid S. Skånland and Carl Rieber-Mohn. Photo: Pilar Ayuda Duran
Photo: Pilar Ayuda Duran
Photo: Pilar Ayuda Duran

Links:

Sigrid S. Skånland’s project group:
Functional precision medicine for hematologic cancers

Department of Cancer Immunology

Some previous news articles about Sigrid Skånland from ous-research.no:

Publication in Nature Communications:
Preclinical study suggests proteasome inhibitor as therapy for ibrutinib-resistant chronic lymphocytic leukemia
(03.02.2025)

EP PerMed grant awarded to European consortium led by Sigrid S. Skånland at Institute for Cancer Research (19.11.2024)

Publication in Science:
Treatment-induced resistance mutations in BTK can be overcome by a clinical-stage BTK degrader
(09.02.2024)

Sigrid Skånland is awarded Researcher of the Year 2023 (07.12.2023)


Previous years winners of the Ragnar Mørks' legacy prize:

2024: Alexander Fosså
2023: Mev Dominguez-Valentin
2022: Marina Vietri
2021: Anita Sveen
2020: Theo Theodossiou
2019: Karl-Johan Malmberg
2018: Kaisa Haglund
2017: June Myklebust
2016: Therese Sørlie
2015: Guro E. Lind
2014: Arne Kolstad
2013: Kjersti Flatmark
2012: Vessela N. Kristensen
2011: Camilla Raiborg
2010: Heidi Lyng
2009: Rolf I. Skotheim
2008: Tor Erik Rusten
2007: Anne Simonsen
2006: Bjørn Naume
2005: Gunhild Mælandsmo
2004: Mouldy Sioud

2003: Ragnhild A. Lothe
2002: Antoni Wiedlocha
2001: Eivind Hovig