

PRIX GALIEN BRIDGES
Biopharma Innovation Without Boundaries
Stockholm, December 05, 2025
Join us for the inaugural Prix Galien Bridges Awards, celebrating life sciences innovation in the Nordic states and their bridge with the biopharmaceutical communities in a number of key European and middle eastern countries representing high growth potential benefiting human health.
Harnessing the Prix Galien to Highlight the Nordics+ Community of Innovators
Through the new “Bridges” initiative, Prix Galien will leverage its convening power to build and strengthen relationships that showcase the Nordic1 region’s long history of creative, integrated approaches to maximizing its reach and market potential in the larger regional/global biopharmaceutical and adjacent technology sectors.
An illustrious committee of industry leaders
Judges of the Prix Galien Bridges Awards are among the industry’s brightest luminaries from their respective countries. Respected globally, we are particularly excited to bring them together for the Prix Galien Bridges Awards where we anticipate particularly meaningful exchange through the prism of the geographical bridge they represent.

María José ALONSO, MD, PhD

Alon CHEN, PhD

Mikael DOLSTEN, MD, PhD

Emma GUTTMAN-YASSKY, MD, PhD

Mansoor MIRZA, MD

Aarno PALOTIE, MD, PhD

Erik RENSTRÖM, PhD

John-Arne RØTTINGEN, MD, PhD

Veronika SEXL, MD, PhD

Kári STEFANSSON, MD, PhD
Through a set of prestigious annual awards, unique, internal stakeholder dialogue, public events, and persuasive published research and communications, we will help make the case for innovative biopharma science as a driver of balanced development and for the transformative knowledge and business practices that add to quality of life for patients and more efficient use of scarce health resources. We recognize the importance of leveraging these strengths to enhance the science base in selected small and middle-sized markets that have yet to secure their potential in attracting the scalable investments necessary to bring new cures and treatments to a wider circle of patients.

Prix Galien International 2024
We deliberately use the term “Bridges” given our aim to – through this initiative - facilitate expertise and knowledge transfers around the Nordic region’s innovation precedents and best practices with five additional strategic countries (comprising the plus in Nordics+): Austria, Israel, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Countries in the region with existing, active Prix Galien programs – Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, and Italy – have pledged their collaboration and solidarity.

1 The Nordic countries are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic. It includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden; the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland; and the autonomous region of Åland.