IFSV Researchers Awarded Both Erhoff Prizes in 2025

Both researchers are internationally leading voices in public health and have addressed key questions in their respective fields.

Marta Guasch-Ferré is recognized for her research on lifestyle and dietary factors in adulthood that are crucial for preventing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Her research centers on the relationship between nutrition, lifestyle, and cardiometabolic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

Her work goes beyond food and exercise, incorporating genetics and metabolomics—the study of small molecules in the body—to understand why certain lifestyle choices protect against disease while others increase risk. By analyzing large datasets, she identifies patterns that can help make disease prevention more effective and personalized.

Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen receives the prize for her groundbreaking work on factors influencing the risk of fetal death and preterm birth, and how conditions during pregnancy and early childhood are critical for achieving a long and healthy life.

Her research searches for answers to the questions: what causes spontaneous abortion and stillbirth? How do conditions during pregnancy and the early years of life relate to congenital anomalies, preterm birth, and the health and well-being of children and adolescents?

She is particularly interested in how fever and infections, as well as social and demographic factors in early life, influence health outcomes. Her work adopts a life-course perspective on disease, using birth cohort studies—such as Bedre Sundhed i Generationer (Better Health in Generations)—to investigate how early-life health conditions affect long-term health into adulthood.

Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen has for many years led the research group POPE (Perinatal, Obstetric and Pediatric Epidemiology). She was instrumental in establishing the birth cohort Bedre Sundhed i Generationer (formerly Bedre Sundhed for Mor og Barn) and has served as its scientific director for many years. She is also the project leader of Developmental Origin of Health and Disease (DoHaD:UCPH), a combined cohort and registry-based research project that explores how early-life exposures impact health in both the short and long term.

The two Erhoff Foundation prizes will be awarded at a ceremony in Copenhagen on September 26, 2025.