Prize announcement

Announcement of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly, on 2 October 2023.

Interview about the awarded work

“This can also help us combat non-infectious diseases, like cancer”

Immediately after the announcement, Professor Qiang Pan Hammarström, member of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, was interviewed by freelance journalist Lotta Fredholm regarding the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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