James Allison – Passion for immunology

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The discoveries were critical for developing effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 during […]

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for revealing the mechanism of one of life’s most essential adaptive processes.

Svante Pääbo receives the Prize for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. Svante Pääbo was born 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden. He defended his PhD thesis in 1986 at Uppsala University and was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Zürich, Switzerland and later at University of California, Berkeley, USA. Pääbo became […]

The Nobel Laureates in Medicine 2021 revealed the mechanisms that underpin the different sensations of temperature and touch. Their discoveries have led to a better understanding of how the nervous system codes sensory information, as well as triggering a myriad of exciting new questions. Since the 1940s, it has been demonstrated that nerve cells are […]

Ardem Patapoutian searched for answers to a fundamental question, which led to complex discoveries and a whole new exciting field. Ardem Patapoutian shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 with David Julius for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch. These discoveries have led to a better understanding of how the nervous […]

One of Nobel Laureate David Julius’ greatest joys is when people in his lab show him exciting data and make their own discoveries, and as a scientist and educator his goal is to bring society back to fact-based thinking. The mechanisms humans use to detect and process hot and cold and experience pain have not […]

Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe defined a system involved in inflammation, metabolism, cancer, and more. On 7 October 2019, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe was having a typical scientist’s day, writing a grant proposal. Then, Ratcliffe, who is Director of Clinical Research at the Francis Crick Institute and Director of the Target Discovery Institute at the University […]