Tag: Nobel Medicine Prize

Recent winners of the Nobel Medicine Prize

Here is a list of the winners of the Nobel Medicine Prize in the past 10 years: 2022: Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo for his discoveries on the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. 2021: US duo David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discoveries on human receptors responsible for our ability to sense temperature and touch. 2020: Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice, together with Briton Michael Houghton, for the discovery of the Hepatitis C […]

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Narcolepsy, cancer tipped as Medicine Prize opens Nobel week

By Pia OHLIN STOCKHOLM, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – Narcolepsy, cancer or mRNA vaccine research could win the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday when a week of announcements kick off, but experts see no clear frontrunner for the Peace Prize. The awards, first handed out in 1901, were created by Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel in his 1895 will to celebrate those who have “conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.” The Medicine Prize is […]

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Japanese scientist wins Nobel Medicine Prize for work on ‘self-eating’ cells

TOKYO, Japan — Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for his discovery of how cells break down and recycles their content, which could lead to a better understanding of diseases like cancer, Parkinson’s and Type 2 diabetes. “The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries on mechanisms for Autophagy,” Thomas Perlmann, Nobel […]

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