Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

Mary E. Brunkow

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Prize share: 1/3

Fred Ramsdell

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Prize share: 1/3

Shimon Sakaguchi

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Frederick J. Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"

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