Nobel Prize in Medicine for immune system guardians

Two Americans and one Japanese scientist honored for revolutionary discoveries on the balance of the immune system in autoimmune diseases

07-Oct-2025 - The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to:Mary E. Brunkow (Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, USA),Fred Ramsdell (Sonoma Biotherapeutics, San Francisco, USA) ansShimon Sakaguchi (Osaka University,Osaka, Japan)“for ...

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman receive Nobel Prize for discoveries in the fight against corona

04-Oct-2023 - The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The ...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022 goes to Svante Pääbo: What makes us uniquely human?

Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution

03-Oct-2022 - Humanity has always been intrigued by its origins. Where do we come from, and how are we related to those who came before us? What makes us,Homo sapiens, different from other hominins? Through his pioneering research, SvantePääboaccomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the ...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 awarded to US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian

How do we perceive the world?

04-Oct-2021 - The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch. Our ability to sense heat, cold and touch is essential for survival and ...

Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2019 Announced

07-Oct-2019 - The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. Animals need oxygen for the ...

Who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine and for which research?

01-Oct-2018 - The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine focuses on the research on cancer immunotherapies. Two pioneers in this field were awarded for their almost life-long research in this area. The laureates James P. Allison Born in 1948 the scientists worked at several famous and major cancer research ...

Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2018 Announced

Appreciation of the research on cancer therapies

01-Oct-2018 - The researchersJames P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo were announced today as this year's winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Their achievements in the field of cancer therapy was groundbreaking and worthy of the Nobel Prize Committee's appreciation. With the help of the immune ...

The Nobel Prize Winners 2017

Internal clock, gravitational waves and cold analysis

04-Oct-2017 - This year's Nobel Prizes were awarded to a total of nine scientists. The research areas that have been awarded and the prize winners at a glance: Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to the ...

Revealing the molecular mechanisms of the circadian clock

Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine announced

02-Oct-2017 - Life on Earth is adapted to the rotation of our planet. For many years we have known that living organisms, including humans, have an internal, biological clock that helps them anticipate and adapt to the regular rhythm of the day. But how does this clock actually work? Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael ...

Yoshinori Ohsumi receives Nobel prize for the discovery of autophagy

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016 awarded

03-Oct-2016 - The japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi receives theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the cell process of autophagy. Yoshinori Ohsumi was born in 1945 in Fukuoka. After receiving his PhD from the Tokyo University he went to Rockefeller University, New York for three ...