The Matti Äyräpää Prize ( fi, Matti Äyräpään palkinto) is a

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prize in medicine awarded by The Finnish Medical Society Duodecim since 1969. It is named after the dentist Matti Äyräpää, who was Duodecim's first chairman. In 2016, the prize money was €20,000.

Recipients

*1969 –

Eino Kulonen Eino Kulonen (October 24, 1921 – September 17, 1984) was a Finnish physician and scientist. Kulonen was born in Kiikka in Pirkanmaa. He earned his D.Med.Sc. degree in 1951 and held the position of docent at the University of Helsinki from 1953 t ...

*1970 – Kauko Vainio *1971 – Esko Nikkilä *1972 – Olli Mäkelä *1973 – Olavi Eränkö *1974 – Kari Penttinen *1975 – Lauri Saxén *1976 – Erkki Klemola *1977 – Kari Kivirikko *1978 –

Kari Cantell Kari or KARI may refer to: Places *Kari, Jhunjhunu, a village in Rajasthan, India * , a village in Mouhoun Province, Burkina Faso *Kari, Tikamgarh, a town in Madhya Pradesh, India * Kari, Iran, a village in Bushehr Province, Iran * Kari-ye Bozorg ( ...

*1979 – Bror-Axel Lamberg *1980 – Pirjo Mäkelä *1981 – Markku Seppälä *1982 – Reijo Vihko *1983 –

Eero Saksela Eero Juhani Saksela (born 6 January 1937) is a Finnish professor of medicine. He was born in Helsinki. He became a physician and took his medical doctorate in 1962. Having been chief physician at the Helsinki University Central Hospital, he was a p ...

*1984 – Tatu Miettinen *1985 – Antti Vaheri *1986 – Olli Jänne *1987 – Mikko Hallman *1988 – Pekka Häyry *1989 –

Pekka Halonen Pekka Halonen (23 September 1865 – 1 December 1933) was a painter of Finnish landscapes and people in the national romantic style. His favorite subjects were the Finnish landscape and its people which he depicted in his Realist style.Aimo Reita ...

*1990 –

Albert de la Chapelle Albert Fredrik de la Chapelle, MD, Ph.D (11 February 1933 – 10 December 2020) was a Finnish human geneticist, long-time head of Finland's first Department of Medical Genetics at the University of Helsinki, and subsequently professor of Human ...

*1991 –

Leevi Kääriäinen Leevi is a village in Veriora Parish, Põlva County in southeastern Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Fi ...

*1992 – Tapani Luukkainen *1993 – Mårten Wikström *1994 – Juhani Jänne *1995 – Jouni Uitto *1996 – Leena Palotie *1997 – Carl G. Gahmberg *1998 –

Kari Alitalo Kari Kustaa Alitalo (born 21 May 1952 in Kuopio) is a Finns, Finnish Doctor of Medicine, MD and a medical researcher. He is a foreign associated member of the National Academy of Sciences of the US. He became famous for his discoveries of several ...

*1999 – Ilpo Huhtaniemi *2000 – Pekka Saikku *2001 –

Riitta Hari Riitta Kyllikki Hari (born 16 January 1948) is a Finnish neuroscientist, physician and professor at Aalto University. She has led the Brain Research Unit at the Low Temperature Laboratory since 1982. Hari was appointed as Academician of Science o ...

*2002 – Matti Haltia *2003 –

Kai Simons Kai Simons (born 24 May 1938) is a Finnish professor of biochemistry and cell biology and physician living and working in Germany. He introduced the concept of lipid rafts, as well as coined the term ''trans-Golgi network'' and proposed its role ...

*2004 – Petri Kovanen *2005 – Kimmo Kontula *2006 – Lauri A. Aaltonen *2007 – Markku Laakso *2008 – Sirpa Jalkanen *2009 – Seppo Ylä-Herttuala *2010 – Jorma Viikari *2011 – Juha Kere *2012 – Heikki Joensuu *2013 – Taina Pihlajaniemi *2014 – Leif Groop *2015 – Heikki Huikuri *2016 – Erika Isolauri

Footnotes

References

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