NLS Nobel Prize 2025

Discoveries in next generation quantum technology have led to a number of cool life science applications, for example within drug discovery and magnetic brain recordings.

Metal-organic frameworks are opening up exciting and previously unknown doors in many different fields, including the life science industry.

Captivated by the beauty of molecules and driven by curiosity and the prospect of making a real impact on society, Omar Yaghi, a chemist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry after 35 years of research on the development of metal-organic frameworks. 

With a family legacy in medicine dating back to the Shogun era, the Japanese immunologist Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi has dedicated his career to the science. A 30-year-old pivotal discovery led him to this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research in peripheral immune tolerance.

Nobel Prize laureate Mary E. Brunkow’s career path has shifted between industry and academia but her end goal to generate clinical benefit and her passion for exploring new areas have never wavered.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 honors fundamental discoveries about how the body prevents the immune system from doing harm, leading to important medical progress in autoimmune diseases and cancer.