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Awarded in Forum Medicum: The first "Childhood Cancer Researcher of the Year" is Medfak's Catharina Hagerling

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Childhood Cancer Researcher of the Year Catharina Hagerling. Photo: Agata Garpenlind.

Excerpt from the award motivation: "Catharina Hagerling ... seeks answers to why some children with neuroblastoma have tumors that give rise to metastases and thus the spread of the cancer."
This is the first time the Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund's award has been awarded.

Catharina Hagerling's research focuses on cases of neuroblastoma in which the cancer spreads to various organs in the body and forms metastases. The goal of her research is to find new approaches to the tumor cells that have managed to spread.

Elevating a researcher

The Childhood Cancer Researcher of the Year award has been established by the Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund to highlight a researcher who has or has had a significant role nationally or internationally, and who works for discoveries that have played or may play a major role in the research and care of childhood cancer patients.

Read full article and watch slide show on Intramed here (in Swedish)