The Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis 2009
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis 2009 jointly toCHARLES DINARELLOUniversity of ColoradoSchool of MedicineDenver, USA,TADAMITSU KISHIMOTOGraduate School of Frontier BiosciencesOsaka UniversityJapan, andTOSHIO HIRANOGraduate School of MedicineOsaka UniversityJapan”for their pioneering work to isolate interleukins, determine their properties and explore their role in the onset ofinflammatory diseases”.TARGETED (‘SMART’) DRUGS TO SAVE JOINTSThis year’s Crafoord Prize laureates discovered two new key