Nobel Prize

The immune system’s security guards What happens if our immune system attacks our own cells? The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 is about our immune system. The immune system protects us from viruses, bacteria and other kinds of microorganisms. The Nobel Prize laureates Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi have discovered…

Translating Basic Science to Therapeutic Opportunities: the Treg Example Fred Ramsdell will deliver his Nobel Prize lecture at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm on 7 December 2025. He will be introduced by professor Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam, member of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet.

FoxP3/Scurfin: A Key Driver of Peripheral Immune Tolerance Mary E. Brunkow will deliver her Nobel Prize lecture at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm on 7 December 2025. She will be introduced by professor Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam, member of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet.

Regulatory T cells for Immune Tolerance: Discovery and Clinical Prospects Shimon Sakaguchi will deliver his Nobel Prize lecture at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm on 7 December 2025. He will be introduced by professor Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam, member of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet.

Interview with the 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How has your childhood influenced your scientific path?  Victor Ambros: I think my childhood experiences were definitely influential in the sense that growing up on a farm in a large family you had a lot of…

Around the world, scientists and healthcare professionals continue to build on the foundations laid by Nobel Prize laureates. In this short clip from the film Bloodlines, Mississippi, we follow a doctor’s mission to advocate for an often-overlooked community facing preventable losses. Short clip: “Bloodlines, Mississippi” Despite advances in diabetes treatment, amputations continue to devastate communities…

The 1957 Nobel Prize laureates assembled onstage for the Nobel Prize award ceremony on 10 December. From left: Physics laureates Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee, chemistry laureate Lord Todd, medicine laureate Daniel Bovet and literature laureate Albert Camus.

Around the world, scientists and healthcare professionals continue to build on the foundations laid by Nobel Prize laureates. In the short clip Shadows in Sunlight, directed by Ruhi Hamid, we follow Ishrat Rahim who vaccinates children against polio in Pakistan.  Short clip: “Shadows in Sunlight” Ishrat Rahim is one of almost 400,000 women working across…

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First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2025 “I thought there was a grizzly bear nearby” Actually, what Fred Ramsdell’s wife was telling him, while on a hiking trip together, was that he had been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In this conversation, Ramsdell speaks about the benefits of working in the environment…