The Danisco Award

The purpose of the Award instituted by the Danisco Foundation is to help improve food pr oducts, notably industrially produced foods.

Institutions and individuals are eligible for the Award as a reward for outstanding efforts to improve foods or as a means of financing food improvement projects. The Danisco Award is presented at least every other year.

The Award was first granted in 2002 and represents a value of DKK 250,000.

Award winners

  • Professor and PhD Tine Rask Licht of the DTU National Food Institute, the Technical University of Denmark (2010)
  • Hanne Christine Bertram, Senior Scientist at The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus University (2009)
  • Lecturer, DSc Barbara Ann Halkier from the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen (2008)
  • Professor Niels Christian Nielsen of Aarhus University (2007)
  • PhD Hanne Frøkiær, Associate Professor at BioCentrum under the Technical University of Denmark (2006)
  • PhD Anne Meyer of BioCentrum at the Technical University of Denmark (2005)
  • PhD student Thomas Meinert Larsen of the Department of Human Nutrition at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen (2004)
  • Research Scientist Charlotte Jacobsen from the Danish Institute for Fisheries Research (2003)
  • The Centre for Advanced Food Studies (2002)
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