Physiology or Medicine

Banquet speech

Gary Ruvkun’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2024. Your Majesties,Your Royal Highnesses,Your Excellencies,fellow Laureates,Ladies and Gentlemen, Victor Ambros and I gratefully celebrate the Nobel Foundation for its century of magnificent awards. Our discovery of a surprising world of tiny RNAs only 22 nucleotides long – dramatically smaller than any RNAs known at…

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Award ceremony speech

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Rickard Sandberg, ledamot av Nobelförsamlingen vid Karolinska Institutet, ledamot av Nobelkommittén för fysiologi eller medicin, 10 december 2024. Ers majestäter, Ers kungliga högheter, ärade Nobelpristagare, mina damer och herrar, För ett ögonblick ber jag er att se er omkring i denna majestätiska sal. Föreställ er att vi inte befinner oss i en…

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Award ceremony speech

English Presentation speech by Professor Rickard Sandberg, Member of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, 10 December 2024. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Prize Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, For a moment, I invite you to look around this majestic hall. Imagine that we are…

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Interview

Interview with the 2006 Nobel Prize laureates in physiology or medicine, Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello, 6 December 2006. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Andrew Fire and Craig Mello, welcome to Stockholm. When we spoke a couple of months ago, just after you’d heard the news that you’d been awarded…

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Nobel Lecture

A vast and ancient hidden world of microRNAs across the eukaryotes Gary Ruvkun delivered his Nobel Prize lecture at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm on 7 December 2024. He was introduced by Professor Anna Wedell, member of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet.

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Nobel Lecture

A marvelous unfolding story of microRNAs Victor Ambros delivered his Nobel Prize lecture at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm on 7 December 2024. He was introduced by Professor Anna Wedell, member of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet.

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Illustrated information

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1992 The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1992 jointly to Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism. Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin…

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From poetic prose that confronts historical traumas to achieving a world free of nuclear weapons. From predicting proteins’ complex structures to training artificial neural networks using physics. From microRNA to new insights into how institutions affect prosperity. The Nobel Prizes 2024 have awarded discoveries and achievements that have benefitted humankind in a myriad of ways.…

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