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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022. Born: 20 April 1955, Stockholm, Sweden. Affiliation at the time of the award: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany; Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan.
Svante Pääbo ForMemRS KmstkNO (Swedish: [ˈsvânːtɛ̂ ˈpʰɛ̌ːbʊ̂]; born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome.
Professor of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, University of Leipzig, Germany. Guest Professor of Comparative Genomics, University of Uppsala, Sweden. Honorary Research Fellow, Natural History Museum, London, UK. Adjunct Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
Oct 3, 2022 · The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine awarded the field’s top prize on Monday to Svante Pääbo, a Swedish geneticist who determined how to extract and analyze DNA from 40,000-year-old...
Oct 3, 2022 · Svante Pääbo, a Swedish scientist who peered back into human history by retrieving genetic material from 40,000-year-old bones, producing a complete Neanderthal genome and launching the field of...
Oct 3, 2022 · Through his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo accomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans. He also made the sensational discovery of a previously unknown hominin, Denisova.
Oct 7, 2022 · Svante Pääbo, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has pioneered efforts to recover DNA from ancient humans.
