NLS Profiles in Science

Sir Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs, and John Jumper, Director and Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, have been honored with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their revolutionary technology for predicting the 3D structure of proteins.

In this year’s Nobel Week Dialogue, Nobel Prize laureates and other experts will gather to discuss and envision our future.

Victor Ambros, Professor of Molecular Medicine and the Silverman Chair in Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, is one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

More than three decades after their discovery of microRNA, Professor Gary Ruvkun received the “mythic call” from Stockholm to learn that he’d been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine alongside his erstwhile colleague Victor Ambros.

Anna Wedell, Professor and Research Group Leader of the group Inborn Errors of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Karolinska Institutet and Director of the new Precision Medicine Center Karolinska, explains how research in rare diseases has evolved due to new technologies, and emphasizes that identifying synergies is essential for diagnosing and treating these conditions.

Kirsty Spalding started her career as a neuroscientist and given a succession of casual events, she ended up studying adipose biology. During her PhD research, Kirsty Spalding had focused on a carbon-dating method to determine the age of neuronal DNA, and after four years of research, she presented her findings. During that presentation, a PhD […]