SAMS Media Prize for Mark Livingston and Odette Frey

The Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) is awarding a media prize for the first time. The "Prix Excellence", endowed with 10,000 Swiss francs, goes in equal parts to the journalists Mark Livingston and Odette Frey. Livingston from Swiss Radio DRS is being honoured for his programmes "License to Clone" and "Cloning Research in Newcastle", Frey for her article "Ask your genes" in the news magazine "Facts".With the newly created media prize, the SAMS wants to recognize and promote the mediation work of journalists. One of the Academy's tasks is to promote dialog between medicine and society. In doing so, it is supported by journalists and researchers who prepare complex topics for a broad audience.