Prize announcement

Announcement of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly, on 3 October 2022.

Interview about the awarded work

“This will give huge insights into human physiology”

Immediately following the announcement of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Professor Nils-Göran Larsson, Chair of the Nobel Committee, spoke to freelance journalist Lotta Fredholm about this year’s awarded work.

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