Physiology or Medicine

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002             Scientific Advisors, Professors at Karolinska Institutet: Hans Jörnvall – Physiological Chemistry, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly Urban Lendahl – Genetics Sten Lindahl – Anesthesiology, Chairman of the Nobel Committee Sten Orrenius – Toxicology Art Director: Urban Frank Medical Writer:…

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 Credits and References for the 2005 Nobel Poster for Physiology or Medicine Scientific Advisers, Professors at Karolinska Institutet: Bo Angelin, Medicine Bertil Hamberger, Surgery Göran K. Hansson, Medicine, Chair of the Nobel Committee Hans Jörnvall, Physiological Chemistry, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly Staffan Normark, Microbiology Olof Nyrén,…

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Biographical

I was born on June 3rd, 1929 in Gränichen in the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, where I went to the public schools until the age of 16. I then entered the gymnasium at the Kantonsschule Aarau where I got a B-type maturity in 1949. From 1949 to 1953 I studied towards the diploma in Natural…

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    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002               The Implications of the Discoveries Some diseases characterized by defective cell death (left) and excessive cell death (right). The introduction of C. elegans as a novel experimental model system, the characterization of its invariant cell lineage, and the…

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