The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to pioneers in optogenetics

Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel are being honoured for the discovery of light-controlled ion channels and the development of optogenetics

05-Oct-2026 - The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to: KARL DEISSEROTH The Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University, USA PETER HEGEMANN Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany GEORG NAGEL University of Würzburg, ...

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 ...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of microRNA

Surprising discovery revealed an entirely new dimension to gene regulation

07-Oct-2024 - The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. This year’s Nobel Prize honors two scientists for their ...

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 ...

Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2018 announced

Appreciation of the research in directed evolution and manipulation of enzymes and antibodies

04-Oct-2018 - The researchers Frances H. Arnold and George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter were announced as this year's winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Their achievements in the directed evolution in enzymes and the use of phage-display to produce antibodies was groundbreaking and worthy of the Nobel ...

Nobel Prize for Physics 2018 announced

Appreciation of the research in laser physics

02-Oct-2018 - The researchersArthur Ashkin and Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland were announced today as this year's winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Their achievements in the field of laser physics was groundbreaking and worthy of the Nobel Prize Committee's appreciation. The discovery of optical ...

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 ...