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Kristian Pietras named Cancer Researcher of the Year 2025

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The Swedish Cancer Society awards Kristian Pietras the Cancer Researcher of the Year 2025 honour. He is a professor of molecular medicine at Lund University and is being recognised for his research on the tumour microenvironment, which has given us the key to understanding how cells in blood vessels and connective tissue interact with tumour cells.


The motivation for the Cancer Foundation's ‘Cancer Researcher of the Year’ award reads:

‘With outstanding research on the tumour microenvironment, he has given us the key to understanding how cells in blood vessels and connective tissue interact with tumour cells. By mapping and influencing signals between cells, he opens the door to new treatments that can stop tumour growth.’

You can find more information about Krsitian Pietra's research here

Read the article about Kristian Pietra's research on the Cancer Foundation website (SWE)