Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale

Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale is a Norwegian biochemist. She is a senior scientist at Oslo University Hospital and Professor of molecular tumor biology at the University of Oslo. She received the 2002 Nordic Medical Prize. In 2015 she received the Fritjof Nansen medal and award for Outstanding Research from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and in 2017 she was appointed to Commander of the Royal Norwegian St. Olavs Order by the King of Norway.

She holds an M.Sc. in biochemistry from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (1970), a D.Sc. in medical biochemical genetics from the University of Oslo (1978) and was awarded full professor competence in gene technology in 1987. She was employed at the Institute of Medical Genetics at the University of Oslo from 1970 as a research assistant, research fellow, senior research fellow and head of section. From 1987 she was a senior scientist at the Department of Genetics at the Norwegian Radium Hospital, and since 1999 she has also been head of department. She has additionally been Professor of molecular tumor biology at the University of Oslo since 1992.

Honours King Olav V's Prize for Cancer Research, 1994 Member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, 1998 Honorary member of the Norwegian Biochemical Society, 2001 Research Prize of the University of Oslo, 2002 Nordic Medical Prize, 2002 Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 2004 Swiss Bridge Award for outstanding Cancer Research, 2004 Honorary doctorate in medicine (dr.med. h.c.), University of Copenhagen, 2008 Möbius Prize of the Research Council of Norway, 2008 Member of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences, 2009 Honorary ambassador of the Norwegian Cancer Society, 2010 Honorary member of The Hungarian Cancer Society, 2012 Helmholtz International Fellow Award, Germany, 2014 European Journal of Surgical Oncology Award Lecture, 2014 Elena Timofeeff-Ressovsky Lecturer, Berlin, 2015 Mildred Scheel Lecturer, Germany, 2015 Fritjof Nansen medal and award for Outstanding Research, 2015 Oslo University Hospital's Excellent Researcher Award, 2015 The AACR Distinguished Lectureship in Breast Cancer Research, 2015 AACR-Women in Cancer Research Charlotte Friend Memorial Lectureship and award, 2017 Commander of the Royal Norwegian St. Olavs Order, 2017