English 2011-10-03 has today decided that The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 shall be divided, with one half jointly to Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its…

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 1975 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1975 jointly to David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco and Howard Temin for their discoveries concerning “the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell”. The fact that the viruses can cause tumours was shown already more than…

English Press release 2009-10-05 has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 jointly to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak for the discovery of “how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase” This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to three…

Swedish 2 oktober 2006 har idag beslutat att Nobelpriset i Fysiologi eller Medicin år 2006 gemensamt tilldelas Andrew Z. Fire och Craig C. Mello för deras upptäckt av “RNA-interferens – utsläckning av geners uttryck med dubbelsträngat RNA” Sammanfattning Årets Nobelpristagare i fysiologi eller medicin har upptäckt en mekanism av central betydelse för informationsflödet i cellen.…

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE October 1978 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1978 jointly to Werner Arber, Dan Nathans and Hamilton Smith for the discovery of “restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics”. Summary Restriction enzymes provide the “chemical knives”…

Swedish Pressmeddelande 2009-10-05 har idag beslutat att Nobelpriset i Fysiologi eller Medicin år 2009 gemensamt tilldelas Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider och Jack W. Szostak för upptäckten av hur kromosomerna skyddas av telomerer och enzymet telomeras Årets Nobelpris går till tre forskare som har löst en av biologins stora gåtor: hur kromosomerna som innehåller…

English NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 9 October 2000 has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2000 Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel for their discoveries concerning “signal transduction in the nervous system” Summary In the human brain there are more than hundred…

The following account of Bárány’s work was given by Professor G. Holmgren, Member of the Staff of Professors at the Robert Bárány dedicated the most important part of his scientific research to a study of the inner ear, particularly to that part of it which is innervated by the nervus vestibularis and is, therefore, known…

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 1971 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1971 to Earl Sutherland for his discoveries concerning “the mechanisms of the action of hormones”. Sutherland has started his investigations already some twenty years ago. In collaboration with the Nobel Laureate he studied the mechanism by which epinephrine regulates…

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 9 October 1989 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1989 jointly to J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus for their discovery of “the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes”. Summary The discovery awarded with this year’s Nobel Prize…