Johan Trygg awarded with the Herman Wold medal in gold
The Swedish Chemical Society awarded Johan Trygg with
the most prestigious Swedish award for researchers in chemometrics.
For the second time in a row a scientist from Umeå University
received the prize. Last year Michael Sjöström, like Johan
scientist at the department of chemistry, was honored.
The medal in pure gold was presented by the Swedish Chemical
Society at the international Scandinavian Symposium on Chemometrics
SSC11, in Loen, Nordfjord, Norway, on June 10th 2009. The prize is
honoring scientists for major achievements in the field of
chemometry, a research field in chemistry, which focuses on optimal
measurement procedures by applying and developing statistical and
mathematical methods. Since 1995 only well-known and legendary
professors have been awarded with the medal in pure gold - Johan
Trygg breaks this trend. As a young associate professor in
chemistry, Johan Trygg was rewarded for his efforts in the research
field of multivariate data analysis.
"The last two years have been very successful to me. Last year,
I received the Elsevier prize and the same year Umeå university
funded me with the young investigators' career award. Now I can add
the Herman Wold medal to my list of honors", says a proud Johan
Trygg. "Above all, this prize to me is again a confirmation that
Umeå University remains a leader in the area and succeeded with new
recruitments after the retirement of Professor Svante Wold", adds
Johan.
Johan is honored for his groundbreaking development of new
methods for modeling and interpretation of large complex data sets.
This issue is very important in biological and medical research
projects. It could help for example to understand the development
of diseases better, to make reliable diagnosis and follow up how a
patient responds to treatment. The method Johan developed is called
OPLS (orthogonal projections to latent structures). It is already
in use by more than 150 Swedish companies, 50 international
institutions and the ten largest pharmaceutical companies in the
world. It has also become standard in the rapidly growing field of
metabolomics, the quantitative study of small molecules involved in
the metabolism.
The Herman Wold medal is named after Herman Wold (1908-1992), a
Swedish statistician known for his work in time series analysis and
econometrics. The recipient of the medal is selected by the Swedish
Chemical Society's prize committee and should be a person who has
contributed significantly to the development and proliferation of
chemometrics in research, development and production. In addition,
this should be done 'in the spirit of Herman Wold'.
For additional information, contact:
Johan Trygg
Department of Chemistry and Computational Life Science Cluster
(CLIC)
Phone: +46 (0)90-786 6917
Mobile: +46 (0)73-0647137
E-mail: johan.trygg@chem.umu.se
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