The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
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Date | 3 October 2022 |
Location | Stockholm |
Country | Sweden |
Presented by | Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet |
Hosted by | Thomas Perlmann |
Reward(s) | 9 million SEK (2017) [1] |
First awarded | 1901 |
2022 laureate | Svante Pääbo |
Website | 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to the Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo (born 1955) "for his research in the field of genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution". [2] [3] [4] It was announced by Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, on 3 October 2022. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Svante Pääbo was born 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden. He completed his doctoral studies at Uppsala University in 1986, served as a postdoctoral associate at the University of Zürich and University of California, Berkeley in the United States, and joined the faculty at the University of Munich in Germany in 1990. He established the Leipzig, Germany-based Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in 1999, where he continues to be involved. He is also an adjunct professor at the Japan's Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. He was the recipient of numerous prizes including Gruber Prize in Genetics in 2013, Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2016, and the Princess of Asturias Award in 2018.
The committee members are elected for a period of three years. In assessing the qualifications of the candidates, the committee is assisted by specially appointed expert advisers. [9] The following medical experts were the members of the 2022 Nobel Committee:
The following publications were the fundamental researches that motivated the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet to award the 2022 Prize to Pääbo: [10]
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
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Date | 3 October 2022 |
Location | Stockholm |
Country | Sweden |
Presented by | Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet |
Hosted by | Thomas Perlmann |
Reward(s) | 9 million SEK (2017) [1] |
First awarded | 1901 |
2022 laureate | Svante Pääbo |
Website | 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to the Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo (born 1955) "for his research in the field of genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution". [2] [3] [4] It was announced by Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, on 3 October 2022. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Svante Pääbo was born 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden. He completed his doctoral studies at Uppsala University in 1986, served as a postdoctoral associate at the University of Zürich and University of California, Berkeley in the United States, and joined the faculty at the University of Munich in Germany in 1990. He established the Leipzig, Germany-based Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in 1999, where he continues to be involved. He is also an adjunct professor at the Japan's Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. He was the recipient of numerous prizes including Gruber Prize in Genetics in 2013, Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2016, and the Princess of Asturias Award in 2018.
The committee members are elected for a period of three years. In assessing the qualifications of the candidates, the committee is assisted by specially appointed expert advisers. [9] The following medical experts were the members of the 2022 Nobel Committee:
The following publications were the fundamental researches that motivated the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet to award the 2022 Prize to Pääbo: [10]