The Swedish Society of Medicine awarded Staffan Normark, a UCMR Linnaeus Visiting Professor, with their prestigious prize and celebrated him with a honoury lecture at the Society's meeting in February. Normark, professor in Infectious Disease Control at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, was awarded for his "fundamental discoveries in bacteriology in Pasteur's spirit and tradition". 
Information in Swedish Staffan Normark at Karolinska InstituteThe Swedish Society of Medicine