Lars Edvinsson, an academic researching cerebral circulation at Lund University, is the recipient of this year’s Swedish Research Award.
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Sweden alone has more than a million migraine sufferers, said Anna Nilsson Vindefjärd, the secretary-general of Research!Sweden, the not-for-profit organisation that gives out the award. “We want to showcase the importance of medical research, and how it leads to benefits such as increased health and societal prosperity,” she said.
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