ALS research in Umeå gets reward

november 29th, 2011

Professor and senior physician Peter Andersen at Umeå University has been awarded the 2011 price of a trust fund for ALS Research.

Andersen has conducted successful research on ALS for almost 20 years. The ALS research team at Umeå University was established in 1992 and is today the largest team in Northern Europe with its 21 people. The research is funded primarily by grants from private foundations, funds and the Research Council in Sweden.

The award is distributed by a foundation that was formed in memory of the Swedish TV- journalist Ulla-Carin Lindquist when she died of ALS in 2004. “Since Ulla-Carin Lindquist passed away the foundation in her name has had great significance for research on the disease ALS. Many young scientists have received scholarships that will allow them to do research. Grants from the Foundation has enabled research that would not otherwise have taken place”, said Peter Andersen, in a comment.

“Research costs”, Peter Andersen further points out. And our group is the most productive in the world in its field with over 120 publications since the first article was published in Nature Genetics in 1995.

For more information, please contact:
Professor Peter Andersen
Tel. 090-785 23 72
E-mail: peter.andersen@neuro.umu.se