Crafoord Prize for Polyarthritis: Winners by Year

Award years

• 2025

  • Christopher Goodnow, David Nemazee

    for the discovery of fundamental mechanisms for B cell tolerance.

• 2021

  • Daniel L. Kastner

    for establishing the concept of autoinflammatory diseases

• 2017

  • Shimon Sakaguchi, Frederick J. Ramsdell, Alexander Rudensky

    for their discoveries relating to regulatory T cells, which counteract harmful immune reactions in arthritis and other autoimmune diseases

• 2013

  • Peter K. Gregersen, Lars Klareskog, Robert J. Winchester

    for their discoveries concerning the role of different genetic factors and their interactions with environmental factors in the pathogenesis, diagnosis and clinical management of rheumatoid arthritis

• 2009

  • Charles Dinarello, Tadamitsu Kishimoto, Toshio Hirano

    for their pioneering work to isolate interleukins, determine their properties and explore their role in the onset of inflammatory diseases

• 2004

  • Eugene C. Butcher, Timothy A. Springer

    for their studies of the molecular mechanisms involved in migration of white blood cells in health and disease

• 2000

  • Marc Feldmann, Ravinder Maini

    for their definition of TNF-alpha as a therapeutic target in rheumatoid arthritis