This year´s Rudbeck and Linnaeus Medals awarded
(WorldNews Sweden)

The Rudbeck Medal is being awarded this year to professors Olga Botner, Fred Nyberg and Johan Svedjedal, and the Linnaeus Medal is being awarded to professor Siv Andersson. The medals will be presented at the Winter Conferment Ceremony on 26 January 2018. Gold Linnaeus Medal The gold Linnaeus Medal will be awarded to Siv Andersson, Professor of Molecular Evolution at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Uppsala University. Award citation: Siv Andersson is awarded the medal in recognition of her studies on bacterial genomes. Most bacteria cannot be cultured in laboratories and it has...