Committee
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Prize for Biotechnology Committee
The Committee
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Prize for Biotechnology 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 five to eight 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 Biotechnology Committee are listed below.
Chair
Detlef Weigel
Professor, Executive Director, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany Has been a member since 2021 and Chair since 2023
Member
Dame Carol Robinson
Director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, Dr Lee's Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK Has been a member since 2021
Member
Maija Tenkanen
Professor, Department of Food and Nutrition, University of Helsinki, Finland Has been a member since 2022
Member
Georg Gübitz
Professor, Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Head Department of Agricultural Sciences, Deputy Head BOKU Unversity, Vienna, Austria Has been a member since 2025
Member
Jack Pronk
Professor, Industrial Microbiology, Head of department, TU Delft, The Netherlands Has been a member since 2025
Member
Claus Felby
Vice President, Agri-Food, Novo Nordisk Foundation Has been a member since 2020