Once a year, the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics awards one or more PhD Awards to PhD student(s) who has defended his/her PhD in the past year, and who has made an exceptional effort. In 2020, Milena T. Tronsgaard (former PhD student in Poul Nissen's group) and Lotte V.W. Stagsted receive the Kjeld Marcker PhD Award 2020.