the TOBIAS PRIZE 2014 awards research about blood formation and leukaemic stem cells
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, awarding body of the prize instituted by the Tobias Foundation, has decided to award the prize for 2014 to Sten Eirik Waelgaard Jacobsen, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and University of Oxford, UK ”for groundbreaking scientific contributions to the field of haematopoiesis, particularly with respect to identifying factors that regulate the maturation process of haematopoietic stem cells, factors of great importance for successfully transplanting stem cells”. Stem cells determine normal or leukaemic blood formation Sten Eirik W. Jacobsen is one