The Royal Academy’s Silver Medal 2023 is awarded to Andreas Hougaard Laustsen-Kiel, who, with his research into snake venom's molecular composition, has shown how knowledge and biotechnological techniques can generate a fundamentally new type of effective antivenoms, consisting of human antibodies, against potentially fatal bites.
Andreas Hougaard Laustsen-Kiel is an engineer from DTU with a master's degree in applied chemistry. He holds a PhD from the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology at the University of Copenhagen. He has since 2021 been a professor at DTU Bioengineering, where he is also head of the Center for Antibody Technologies.
In addition, he is a member of the World Health Organization's “Expert Roster” for snakebites and antivenom, co-founder of 8 biotech companies, and appears on the internationally prestigious Forbes Magazine's '30 under 30' and MIT Technology Review's '35 innovators under 35'.
Read more about Andreas Hougaard Laustsen-Kiel's receipt of the Royal Academy’s Silver Medal 2023 at the Royal Academy. (In Danish)
Read more about Andreas Hougaard Laustsen-Kiel’s research here.
