Presentation of KLM’s Career Prize for outstanding research Prize winners: Raquel Bartolome Casado and Petter Holland
We are pleased to announce that Raquel Bartolome Casado from the Department of Pathology and Petter Holland from the Department of Microbiology at the Clinic for Laboratory Medicine (KLM) were recently honored for their outstanding research work during an award ceremony. The ceremony took place on Friday the 27th of September in the Blue Auditorium at Oslo University Hospital (Rikshospitalet, OUS). Emma Lång, head of the group for temporary employees (KLM TempAware), led the ceremony. Research director Lars Eide represented the clinic and the KLM research committee, which established the prize that was awarded for the first time this year.
Raquel Bartolome Casado has distinguished herself in research on the immune system in mucous membranes, using advanced technologies such as single-cell analyses and large-scale data analysis. She completed her PhD at the Department of Pathology in 2020 and was awarded H.M. The King’s Gold Medal for her work. Casado also spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Sanger Institute in the UK, where she supervised PhD students. She has published 29 scientific articles, eight of which as the first author and has accumulated over 503 citations. Recently, one of her first-author articles was nominated for the OUS award for excellent research article. She is now back at KLM, supported by the FRIPRO program, to continue her research.
In addition to his strong research work, Petter Holland has gained significant attention for his project on plasmaphoresis, where he is the project leader, supported by the National Association for Public Health. He completed his PhD in 2016 at the Centre for Immune Regulation (CIR) and has since published 25 scientific articles, with him being the first author on a third of them. With experience from both the Chalmers Institute in Gothenburg and the Institute for Cancer Research at OUS, Holland has made important contributions in microbiology. He has also appeared on "Good Morning Norway" to talk about the plasmaphoresis project.
We congratulate both researchers on the award and look forward to following their continued contributions to medical research.