Prize announcement

Announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly, on 6 October 2025.

Interview about the awarded work

“A fundamental discovery about the principle that keeps our immune system in check”

Rickard Sandberg, professor of molecular genetics, member of the Nobel Committee, is interviewed by Sharon Jåma.

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