NLS Profiles

For Sirpa and Markku Jalkanen of Finland, M.D. and Ph.D., married, immunotherapy researchers, working together came as naturally as a courtship.

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.

His is not a household name, but the drugs developed thanks to Danish scientist Jens Juul Holst’s research certainly are.