Joakim Strömberg, PhD student at the Department of Orthopedics and physician at the Hand Surgery Center at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, has been selected for the International Dupuytren Award 2017 in the category “Clinical Research”. He received the prize for his article “Comparison of Treatment Outcome After Collagenase and Needle Fasciotomy for Dupuytren Conctracture: A Randomized, Single-Blinded, Clinical Trial With a 1-Year Follow-Up.” This article is published in the Journal of Hand Surgery (American Volume ), in September 2016. Co-authors of the study were Allan Ibsen-Sörensen and Jan Fridén. Link to information about the award: http://www.dupuytren-online.info/dupuytren_award.html