Nobel Prize

Calligrapher: Susan DuvnäsBook binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi ABPhoto reproduction: Dan Lepp© The Nobel Foundation 2025

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 delivered his Nobel Prize lecture at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm on 7 December 2025. He was 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 delivered her Nobel Prize lecture at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm on 7 December 2025. She was 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 delivered his Nobel Prize lecture at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm on 7 December 2025. He was 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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