Nobel Prize

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002               The Implications of the Discoveries Some diseases characterized by defective cell death (left) and excessive cell death (right). The introduction of C. elegans as a novel experimental model system, the characterization of its invariant cell lineage, and the…

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002               The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Sydney Brenner, Robert Horvitz and John Sulston for their discoveries concerning “genetic regulation…

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002               Male Female Programmed cell death eliminates unwanted structures during the development of the male and female inner reproductive organs. The human body consists of hundreds of cell types, all originating from the fertilized egg. During the embryonic and…

Scientific Advisors, Professors at Karolinska Institutet: Sten Grillner – Physiology Hans Jörnvall – Physiological Chemistry and Secretary of the Nobel Assembly Sten Lindahl – Anesthesiology Lars Olson – Neurobiology Ralf Pettersson – Molecular Biology Urban Ungerstedt – Neuropsychopharmacology Art Director: Urban Frank Micrographs: Ruud Ubink and Tomas Hökfelt Medical Writer: Anders Nystrand Printed by David…

Contents:   These pages are based on material from the 2000 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Poster.

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel for their discoveries concerning “signal transduction in the nervous system”. Carlsson discovered that dopamine is a transmitter, Greengard found that dopamine and other “slow” transmitters act by protein phosphorylation, and Kandel…

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 Contents: | | | |  |  |  | | || Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, web adapted by Nobel Web

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 Contents: | | | |  |  |  | | | Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, web adapted by Nobel Web

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 Credits and References for the 2005 Nobel Poster for Physiology or Medicine Scientific Advisers, Professors at Karolinska Institutet: Bo Angelin, Medicine Bertil Hamberger, Surgery Göran K. Hansson, Medicine, Chair of the Nobel Committee Hans Jörnvall, Physiological Chemistry, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly Staffan Normark, Microbiology Olof Nyrén,…

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 Contents: | | | |  |  |  | | | Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, web adapted by Nobel Web