The award is named after two women with distinguished medical careers: Lina Stern (1878 – 1968), a Russian emigrée who in 1918 was the first woman to hold a professorship at the Faculty of Medicine in Geneva, and Ruth Gattiker (1923 – 2021), who in the 1970s was one of the first female professors appointed at the Faculty of Medicine in Zurich. The prize is worth CHF 15,000.
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