Committee

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Prize for Biomedicine Committee

The Committee

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Prize for Biomedicine Committee is responsible for assessing the nominations and producing a shortlist of candidates following comprehensive analyses. The shortlisted candidates are then assessed by international experts before the Committee selects the final recipient.

Nominations are welcome from individual researchers and research institutions including academic and industrial institutions, as well as from research funding agencies.

The Committee comprises 9 to 12 members, including a Chair. The members and Chair are appointed by the Board of the Novo Nordisk Foundation in accordance with the general rules covering the Foundation’s committees.

The current members of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Prize for Biomedicine Committee are listed below.

Chair

Jørgen Frøkiær

MD, DMSci, Professor of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Head of Research, Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, Aarhus University Hospital / Aarhus University, Denmark Has been a member since 2016