The awards are distributed anually in order to honour excellent scientific work. The awarding process is organized by the hospital's research committee, while an external Scientific Advisory Board has evaluated the candidates.
The major prize - the "Excellent Researcher Award" - went to Kjetil Taskén while Chloé Beate Steen and Andreas Kleppe received the "Early Career Award". The prize money - 400.000 and 200.000 NOK respectively - is earmarked for research activities. Read more about the awards at the OUS webpage
Steen obtained her PhD in the Myklebust research group and then had a postdoctoral stay at Stanford University. She is currently affiliated to the Myklebust group (20%) and has recently received a Mobility grant from PRIMA for her current research stay at the lab of Aaron Newman at the Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, US.