Senior professor Lars L Gustafsson receives Karolinska Institutet’s Grand Silver Medal 2025
Congratulations Lars L Gustafsson at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, receiver of Karolinska Institutet’s Grand Silver Medal for tremendous contributions.
Lars L Gustafsson, Senior Professor at the Division of Clinical Pharmacology is awarded the Grand Silver Medal for his leading efforts in clinical pharmacology
"I am honored and pleased that research collaboration in Africa as well as our development and research of precision medicine knowledge support on medicines in health care have been rewarded. It is also gratifying that clinical pharmacology research, education and service receive this recognition", says Lars.
Motivation
Professor Lars L Gustafsson is to be awarded the Grand Silver Medal for his leading efforts in clinical pharmacology. In numerous groundbreaking studies, he and his team have demonstrated how pharmaceutical effects and adverse reactions can vary among individuals and population cohorts as regards, for example, tropical diseases, HIV and pain, and among children and pregnant women. His objective has been to create optimal, individualised drug therapies.
Lars Gustafsson has also developed tools such as Kloka Listan and Janusinfo, which now constitute the national standards, and which have improved drug use and generated considerable health economic grains. His work has been highly influential both nationally and internationally.