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Professor Anna Wedell delivering the presentation speech for the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2022. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Clément Morin English Presentation Speech by Professor Anna Wedell, Member of the , Adjunct member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, 10 December 2022. Your…

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The Neandertal Genome and the Evolution of Modern Humans Svante Pääbo delivered his Nobel Prize lecture at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm on 7 December 2022. He was introduced by Professor Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam, member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Copyright © Svante Pääbo  

Interview with the 2019 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine William G. Kaelin on 8 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Was it your dream to be a Nobel Laureate? Was this my dream to become a Nobel Laureate when I was a child? To be honest, when I was a child,…

Interview, December 2022 Interview with the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Svante Pääbo on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Svante Pääbo answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – Where does your passion for science come from? – Was there a particular person…

Announcement of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly, on 3 October 2022. Interview about the awarded work “This will give huge insights into human physiology” Immediately following the announcement of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Professor Nils-Göran Larsson, Chair…

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Scientific background Discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Svante Pääbo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. The relationship between Homo sapiens and extinct hominins has long been a topic of great interest. Paleontology and archeology are…

English Press release 2022-10-03 has today decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution Humanity has always been intrigued by its origins. Where do we come from, and how are we related to those who came before us?…