SIGHT Award – new global health prize inaugurated
Today the newly established SIGHT Award is publicly announced for the first time. The Swedish professor Andreas Mårtensson receives the prize for his pioneering work to find strategies to fight malaria. Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation, SIGHT, has initiated SIGHT Award to reward ”excellent scientific achievement within global health”. The prize of SEK 100 000 has been enabled with support from the Einhorn Family Foundation and is presented by Melinda Gates in Stockholm on November 15tth.The first SIGHT Award is presented at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on