Physiology or Medicine

Prize announcement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAT6Ah06lc Announcement of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, on 7 October 2019. Interview about the awarded work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JdfScFcDjs&t=354s “Scientists often toss around this phrase ‘textbook discovery’. But I’d say this is really a textbook discovery” Immediately after the announcement,…

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Interview

Interview, December 2019 Interview with the 2019 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine William G. Kaelin on 8 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. William G. Kaelin answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – Was it your dream to be a Nobel Laureate? – How did…

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Interview

Interview, December 2019 Interview with the 2019 Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, 6 December 2019. Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): Did you always plan on studying medicine? What do you enjoy about medicine? How do you deal with failures? Did…

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Advanced information

Scientific Background How cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2019 is awarded to William Kaelin, Jr., Sir Peter Ratcliffe, and Gregg Semenza. The need for oxygen to sustain life has been understood since the onset of modern biology; but the molecular mechanisms underlying how cells adapt…

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