Published: 10-09-2024 10:01 | Updated: 11-09-2024 12:41

Neuroinflammation Study Wins 2024 Cluster Headache Award

Jakob Edvinsson in between the other two, at the price ceremony in London.
From left to right: Roberto De Icco, Jacob Edvinsson and Peter Goadsby. Photo: Michele Corrado

Caroline Ran, researcher at Karolinska Institutet, and Jacob Edvinsson, researcher at Lund University, are the first authors of an article which has been awarded the best scientific article on cluster headache published between June 2023 and May 2024. It is the first time since 2004 that the prize goes to Sweden.

Jakob Edvinsson stands a a podium holding a lecture.
Jakob Edvinsson. Photo: Marie-Louise Edvinsson

The 2024 edition of the Cluster Headache Award has been awarded the paper entitled "MERTK in the rat trigeminal system: a potential novel target for cluster headache?”, co-authored by Jacob Edvinsson, Caroline Ran, Felicia Jennysdotter Olofsgård, Anna Steinberg, Lars Edvinsson and Andrea Carmine Belin.

The Cluster Headache Award is funded by the Headache Science & Neurorehabilitation Unit of the IRCCS Mondino Foundation of Pavia, in recognition of the best scientific paper published on cluster headache in the previous year (between June 2023 and May 2024).

The Award Ceremony took place in London, during the “20th Migraine Trust International Symposium 2024”, on 8 September 2024. A dedicated session was planned during the congress at which one of the first authors, Jacob Edvinsson, from Lund University, delivered a ten-minute plenary lecture on the major findings of the study.