King Olav V's Prize for Cancer Research 2025 to Karl-Johan Malmberg

Photo: Arne Thoresen
The Norwegian Cancer Society awards the King Olav V Cancer Research Prize each year to a researcher who has particularly promoted the quality of Norwegian cancer research. The prize was first awarded in 1992 and Karl-Johan Malmberg is the 34th winner of the prize, which amounts to one million NOK. He has been honoured with the prestigious prize for his groundbreaking work on how the body's own cells can detect and eliminate cancer. Malmberg is professor at the University of Oslo and head of the Natural Killer Cell Biology and Cell Therapy research group at the Institute for Cancer Research at Oslo University Hospital.