Nobel Prize

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 1971 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1971 to Earl Sutherland for his discoveries concerning “the mechanisms of the action of hormones”. Sutherland has started his investigations already some twenty years ago. In collaboration with the Nobel Laureate he studied the mechanism by which epinephrine regulates…

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 9 October 1989 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1989 jointly to J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus for their discovery of “the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes”. Summary The discovery awarded with this year’s Nobel Prize…

English 2 October 2006 has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2006 jointly to Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello for their discovery of “RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA” Summary This year’s Nobel Laureates have discovered a fundamental mechanism for controlling the flow of genetic…

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 1977 has decided that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1977 should be divided, one half being awarded jointly to Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally for their discoveries concerning “the peptide hormone production of the brain” and the other half to Rosalyn Yalow for “the development of radioimmunoassays of peptid…

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 9 October 1995 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1995 jointly to Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus for their discoveries concerning “the genetic control of early embryonic development”. Summary The 1995 laureates in physiology…

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTETTHE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 9 October 1981 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1981 with one half to Roger W. Sperry for his discoveries concerning “the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres” and the other half jointly to David H. Hubel and Torsten…

English 2010-10-04 has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 to Robert G. Edwards for the development of in vitro fertilization Summary Robert Edwards is awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for the development of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) therapy. His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a…

Swedish 2010-10-04 har idag beslutat att Nobelpriset i Fysiologi eller Medicin år 2010 tilldelas Robert G. Edwards för utvecklingen av in vitro-fertilisering Sammanfattning Robert Edwards belönas med 2010 års Nobelpris för utvecklingen av in vitro-fertilisering (IVF eller provrörsbefruktning). Hans insatser har gjort det möjligt att behandla ofrivillig barnlöshet (infertilitet), ett problem som mer än 10…

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 1972 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1972 jointly to Gerald Maurice Edelman and Rodney Robert Porter for their discoveries concerning “the chemical structure of antibodies”. Antibodies is the collective name of a group of blood proteins that play an important part in the defense against…

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1973 jointly to Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen for their discoveries concerning “organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns”. During the first decades of this century research concerning animal behaviour was on its way to be…