9 December 2024, Stockholm
Owen Gaffney is chief impact officer at Nobel Prize Outreach.
Owen Gaffney is a writer, analyst and strategist.
He is chief impact officer at Nobel Prize Outreach. Owen co-founded the Exponential Roadmap Initiative and co-leads the Earth4All initiative.
He has held positions at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Future Earth, Global Commons Alliance and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme.
Read the interview with laureate and speaker Olga Tokarczuk, on what health means to her, how literature and mental health are connected, and what she learned from working as a psychologist.
The discovery of insulin and subsequent breakthroughs by Nobel Prize laureates led to advancements in how we treat the chronic disease. Now, efforts are focused on tackling the unfolding diabetes “epidemic” and finding a cure that could relegate the disease to history.
Unleashing the power of the immune system to fight cancer.
What motivated Alfred Nobel to specify a prize in physiology or medicine.
Katalin Karikó was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 for her work helping to develop covid vaccines which saved millions of lives worldwide.
