Kirsten Sandvig (born 17 May 1950) is a Norwegian biochemist.
Career
editAfter finishing her PhD at the University of Oslo in 1979, she was hired as a researcher at the Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital. From 1996 she was an adjunct professor at the Institute for Molecular Biosciences, University of Oslo.[1]
In 1989 she received the Anders Jahre Medical Prize for young researchers.[2] In 2014 the Fridtjof Nansen Prize for Outstanding Research was bestowed upon her.[3]
She is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters,[4] of the American Academy of Microbiology as the third Norwegian to be inducted,[5] and of the Academia Europaea.[6][1] In 2007 she received an honorary degree at the University of Copenhagen.[7]
She has been a board member and deputy chair of the Norwegian Radium Hospital and Institute for Cancer Research.[8]
Personal life
editShe is a daughter of engineer Steinar Uchermann Sandvig and Danish-born Vera Pedersen. Her paternal grandfather, also named Steinar Uchermann Sandvig, was a dentist and sculptor, and son of dentist and museum founder Anders Sandvig. Kirsten Sandvig's father worked at Mesna Kartonfabrik in Lillehammer at the time of her birth, but moved to Borregaard in Sarpsborg in 1951.[9][10]
References
edit- ^ a b "Kirsten Sandvig". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ^ "Jahres medisinske priser -Prisen for yngre forskere". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ^ "Nansen prize to Professor Kirsten Sandvig". Nordic Life Science. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ^ "Medlemmer Den matematisk-naturvitenskapelige klasse" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ^ "New honourable membership for Kirsten Sandvig". Institute for Cancer Research. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ^ "Sandvig selected member in Academia Europea". Institute for Cancer Research. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ^ "Kirsten Sandvig promoted honorary doctor at The University of Copenhagen". Institute for Cancer Research. 19 November 2007. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ^ "Kirsten Sandvig". Forvaltingsdatabasen (in Norwegian). Sikt. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ^ Juul Møller, Tryggve, ed. (1962). "Sandvig, Steinar Uchermann [Jr.]". Studentene fra 1937: biografiske opplysninger, statistikk og artikler samlet til 25 års jubileet 1962 (in Norwegian). p. 464.
- ^ "Steinar Uchermann Sandvig [Sr.]". Norsk kunstnerleksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 25 September 2024.