Pfizer 2024 Prize awarded to 13 young scientists
13 young researchers from Basel, Bern, Fribourg, Geneva and Zurich have won this year's Pfizer Research Award.
The prize is awarded for outstanding scientific work in the field of medicine.
Ten women are among the 13 winners, Pfizer announced on Thursday. The winning works cover a variety of fields. One of them suggests, for example, that certain preventive measures could reduce the number of pneumonias developed during hospital stays by a third.
+Science in Switzerland: the women driving change
The awards ceremony will take place on January 25 in Zurich. The Pfizer Prize for Research has been awarded annually since 1992. It has already rewarded 438 researchers. The foundation has donated a total of more than CHF6.8 million ($7.8 million) to medical research.
+Swiss pharma lags behind in global innovation ranking
This news story has been written and carefully fact-checked by an external editorial team. At SWI swissinfo.ch we select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools such as DeepL to translate it into English. Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. You can find them here.
If you want to know more about how we work, have a look here, and if you have feedback on this news story please write to english@swissinfo.ch.
External Content
Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again.
Almost finished… We need to confirm your email address. To complete the subscription process, please click the link in the email we just sent you.
In compliance with the JTI standards
More: SWI swissinfo.ch certified by the Journalism Trust Initiative
You can find an overview of ongoing debates with our journalists here . Please join us!
If you want to start a conversation about a topic raised in this article or want to report factual errors, email us at english@swissinfo.ch.