Committee
Jacobæus Prize for Biomedicine
The Committee
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Committee on Bioscience and Basic Biomedicine is responsible for assessing and evaluating the Jacobæus Prize for Biomedicine nominations and selecting the Prize recipient.
Nominations can be submitted by individual researchers and by research institutions including academic and industrial institutions, and research funding agencies.
The Committee was established in 2017 and comprises 12 members, including a Chair. The Board of the Foundation appoints the Chair and the other members in accordance with the general rules covering the Foundation's committees.
The current members of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Committee on Bioscience and Basic Biomedicine are listed below.
Chair
Savvas Savvides
Professor of Structural Biology, VIB Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent University, Belgium Has been a member since 2021
Member
Albin Sandelin
Professor in Computational and RNA biology, University of Copenhagen Has been a member since 2022
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Anne-Claude Gavin
Professor in Systems Biology, Geneva University, Switzerland Has been a member since 2022
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Cor de Wit
Professor in Physiology, University of Lübeck, Germany Has been a member since 2023
Member
Dan I. Andersson
Professor, Director of Uppsala Antibiotic Center, Dept. of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden Has been a member since 2021
Member
Sine Reker Hadrup
Professor, Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Has been a member since 2024
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Ditlev Brodersen
Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark Has been a member since 2025
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Johanna Ivaska
Professor in Molecular Cell Biology, University of Turku, Finland Has been a member since 2023
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Jørgen Kjems
Professor in Nanoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark Has been a member since 2023
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Simon Boulton
Professor in Cellular Biology, The Francis Crick Institute, UK Has been a member since 2022
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Eva Hedlund
Professor in Neurochemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden Has been a member since 2026
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Nanna MacAulay
Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Has been a member since 2025