Nobel Week Dialogue
Javid Abdelmoneim
Mohamed Javid Abdelmoneim is a Sudanese-Iranian emergency medicine doctor, with extensive experience in both the United Kingdom’s National Health Service and with MSF, Médecins Sans Frontières.
Nobel Prize laureate
Frances Arnold
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018.
Frances Arnold received the chemistry prize for pioneering directed enzyme evolution methods used across medicine, consumer products, agriculture, fuels and chemicals.
Barbara Bendlin
Barbara Bendlin is a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Nobel Prize laureate
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020.
Emmanuelle Charpentier received the Nobel Prize for discovering one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors.
Mariam Claeson
Mariam Claeson is a senior advisor on global public health at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Sally Davies
Sally Davies is the 40th Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University and the UK Government’s Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance.
Maja Fjaestad
Maja Fjaestad is senior advisor to the president at Karolinska Institutet and associate professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden.
Alison Holmes
Alison Holmes is a physician-scientist in infectious diseases and inaugural director of the Fleming Initiative.
Jens Juul Holst
Jens Juul Holst is professor of medical physiology at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. His scientific achievements include the discovery of GLP-1.
Anja Huizink
Anja Huizink is professor of developmental psychopathology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, specialising in biopsychological influences on mental health.
Jan Nilsson
Jan Nilsson is professor of experimental cardiovascular research at Lund University, Sweden.
Nobel Prize laureate
Paul Nurse
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001.
Paul Nurse is Director of the Francis Crick Institute in London and Chancellor of the University of Bristol. He received the Nobel Prize for discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle.
Sara Parkman
Sara Parkman is a multi-award-winning Swedish musician and artist who, since her debut in 2016, has been pushing the boundaries of what folk music can be.
John-Arne Røttingen
John-Arne Røttingen is Chief Executive Officer of Wellcome.
Anna Sjöström Douagi
Anna Sjöström Douagi is the deputy CEO of NGI and has been head of Nobel Prize Outreach since January 2025.
Adam Smith
Adam Smith is chief scientific officer for Nobel Prize Outreach. His background is in scientific research and science publishing.
Nobel Prize laureate
Jean Tirole
Jean Tirole works in industrial organisation, regulation, game theory, corporate finance, banking and currency crises, and psychology-based economics. His 2014 prize in economic sciences focused on market regulation.
Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg is a professor of Neurochemistry at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, US, and University College London, UK, and a clinical chemist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Juleen Zierath
Juleen Zierath is professor of clinical integrative physiology at Karolinska lnstitutet. Her research has revealed key steps in insulin signaling pathways that are impaired in diabetic patients.
