STOCKHOLM, Oct 5, (GM/NET) – Here is a list of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in the past 10 years:
2026: American Karl Deisseroth together with Germany’s Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their work in optogenetics, making it possible to show how nerve cells shape memories, feelings and behaviours. 2025: Americans Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell and Japan’s Shimon Sakaguchi for research into how the immune system is regulated and kept in check.
2024: US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, for their discovery of microRNA and its role in how genes are regulated. 2023: Hungarian Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman of the United States, for their work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, which paved the way for groundbreaking Covid-19 vaccines.
2022: Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, for his discoveries on the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.
2021: US duo David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, for discoveries on human receptors responsible for our ability to sense temperature and touch. 2020: Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice, and Briton Michael Houghton, for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus, leading to the development of sensitive blood tests and antiviral drugs. 2019: William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza of the US and Britain’s Peter Ratcliffe, for establishing the basis of our understanding of how cells react and adapt to different oxygen levels.
