Award Ceremony 2009

For the thenth time, the SWISS BRIDGE AWARD was presented to three distinguished scientists: Professor Matthias Egger of the University of Bern, Professor Wilhelm Krek of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and Professor C. West from Cancer Research UK, London.

The Board of Foundation invited the approximately 60 researchers, who over the past ten years had submitted a full project description as well as all former winners of this prestigious award to submit a new project application. Out of the 38 letters of intent submited to the Scientific Office of the Swiss Cancer League and the international scientific committee unter the leadership of Professor Gordon McVie, six scientists were invited to submit a full project description.

The ceremony took place at the Restaurant UniTurm of the University of Zurich on 20th October 2009. Professor Gordon McVie introduced the three award winners to the 40 guests in his usual humoristic speech.