Michael Schöll, senior lecturer at the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology affiliated with the Wallenberg Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine, is awarded the Birger Karlsson Science Prize by the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg (KVVS). He receives the prize for “his innovative and internationally renowned research to develop and evaluate methods based on positron emission tomography in order to visualize molecular disease changes in brain diseases”. The research aims to identify early neuropathological changes in a brain that will develop a neurodegenerative disease, such as a dementia disease, and what distinguishes it from a brain that ages healthily.