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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded annually by the Swedish Karolinska Institute to scientists in the various fields of physiology or medicine.
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Wikipedia
As of 2023, 115 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have...
- 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Wikipedia
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly...
- 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Wikipedia
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded...
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Wikipedia
As of 2023, 115 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have been awarded to 227 laureates, 214 men and 13 women. The first one was awarded in 1901 to the German physiologist, Emil von Behring, for his work on serum therapy and the development of a vaccine against diphtheria.
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David Julius
David Julius was born in 1955 in New York, United States. He received a Ph.D. in 1984 from University of California, Berkeley and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University in New York. In 1989, David Julius was recruited as professor to the University of California, San Francisco. He was the recipient of numerous prestigious awards such as the 2010 Shaw Prize in Life Sciences and Medicine, the 2010 Prince of Asturias Prize for Technical and Scientific Research, the 2020 Breakthrough Pr...
Ardem Patapoutian
Ardem Patapoutian was born to an Armenian family in 1967 in Beirut, Lebanon. In his youth, he moved from a war-torn Beirut to Los Angeles, United States and received a Ph.D. in biology in 1996 from California Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. Since 2000, he is a scientist at Scripps Research, La Jolla, California where he is now Professor. Since 2014, he is an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was a reci...
In announcing the winners, Thomas Perlmann, secretary-general of the Karolinska Institute, said: "This really unlocks one of the secrets of nature. It’s actually something that is crucial for our survival, so it’s a very important and profound discovery." The Nobel Committee believed that Julius and Patapoutian's discoveries address "one of the gre...
The following publications were the fundamental researches that motivated the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutetto award the 2021 Prize to Julius and Patapoutian:
Oldest laureate: 87. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023. They contributed to an unprecedented rate of vaccine development. The discoveries by the two Nobel Prize laureates were critical for developing effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 during the pandemic that began in early 2020.
A list of Nobel laureates in physiology or medicine from 2022 to 1901, with brief descriptions of their discoveries. The web page is part of The Nobel Prize Internet Archive, a comprehensive source of Nobel information.
All Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded 114 times to 227 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2023. Click on the links to get more information.
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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to the American virologists Harvey J. Alter (b. 1935), Michael Houghton (b. 1949) and Charles M. Rice (b. 1952) "for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus."
