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Swedish 2015-10-05 har idag beslutat att tilldela Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin år 2015 med ena hälften gemensamt till William C. Campbell och Satoshi Ōmura för deras upptäckter rörande en ny terapi mot infektioner orsakade av parasitmaskar och den andra hälften till Tu Youyou för hennes upptäckter rörande en ny terapi mot malaria Sjukdomar som…

Scientific Background Avermectin and Artemisinin – Revolutionary Therapies against Parasitic Diseases The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded with one half jointly to Dr. William C. Campbell and Professor Satoshi Ōmura for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites and the other half to Professor Tu Youyou…

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Upbringing I was born in Göttingen on December 22, 1955. At that time, the aftermaths of the Second World War were still reverberating. Mine was an anthroposophical family; my maternal grandparents had been early followers of Rudolf Steiner’s teaching, and worked for Waldorf schools when Hitler assumed power and banned the anthrophosophical movement. Waldorf schools…

Otto Fritz Meyerhof was born on April 12, 1884, in Hannover. He was the son of Felix Meyerhof, a merchant of that city and his wife Bettina May. Soon after his birth his family moved to Berlin, where he went to the Wilhelms Gymnasium (classical secondary school). Leaving school at the age of 14, he…

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The medal of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute represents the Genius of Medicine holding an open book in her lap, collecting the water pouring out from a rock in order to quench a sick girl’s thirst. The inscription reads: Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes The words on the medal mean literally: It…

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