Akademiliv congratulates the seven former doctoral students who have been awarded this year’s thesis. The thesis of the year for the entire Sahlgrenska Academy 2019 is about the Alzheimer marker neurogranin, and was written by Hlin Kvartsberg (Akademiliv will get back with a longre article). The other award winners are Joakim Karlsson (Biomedicine), Maria Frånlund (Clinical Sciences), Maria Bygdell (Medicine), Fredrik Hieronymus (Neuroscience and Physiology), Maha El Shahawy (Odontology), and Anna Wessberg (Healt and Care Sciences). Congratulations! The awards ceremony, which was scheduled to take place at the end of May, has been canceled due to the corona situation.