STOCKHOLM – Sweden’s Royal Academy of Sciences on Thursday named one US and two Japanese scientists as co-winners of the US$500 000 Crafoord Prize for discoveries that improved treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and similar conditions.
The annual award will be shared by American scientist Charles Dinarello and Japan’s Tadamitsu Kishimoto and Toshio Hirano.
Dinarello, 65, is a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, Colorado.
Kishimoto, 69, chairs the department of medicine at Osaka University Medical School in Japan and 61-year-old Hirano is dean at the Graduate School of Medicine at Osaka University.
The academy said their research on the human immune system in the 1970s and ’80s paved the way for new drugs to help treat conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, gout and Still’s disease.
An award ceremony will be held in Stockholm on May 11.
The prize is named after Holger Crafoord, the Swede who designed the first artificial kidney. It has been given annually since 1982 for scientific research in areas not covered by the better-known Nobel Prizes, including mathematics, astronomy, biosciences and geosciences. – Nampa-AP
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