Honours and Awards
2011 J. Denis McGarry Lecturship Award, Montreal Diabetes Research Center
2009-pres Member of the Royal Swedish Academy
2009-2013 European Research Council Advanced Grant Award
2010 Datta Lectureship Award for outstanding achievement in the field of biochemistry and molecular biology or a related area from the Federation of European Biochemical Society (FEBS)
2010-2014 Distinguished Professor Award from Karolinska Institutet
2005 Future Research Leader award from the Foundation for Strategic Research (Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning; INGVARII),
2004 Swedish Central Organization for Sport Science (Centralförening för Idrottens främjande (SCIF) Young Investigator Award
2001 Minkowski Prize, Young investigator award from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
2001 Sven and Ebba-Christina Hagberg Prize
1999 Fernström Prize, for young, especially promising and successful researchers at the Karolinska Institutet
1997 Swedish National Junior Individual Grant from the Foundation for Strategic Research (Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning)
1995 “Best Dissertation in the Field of Diabetes” from the Swedish Society for Diabetology
1995 Research Fellowship from the Swedish Institute
1984 Senior Academic Honors, University of Wisconsin River Falls
1983 Jenny Slight Memorial Scholarship, University of Wisconsin River Falls