Khaberni - The Nobel Prize granting body announced on Monday that American scientists Mary Bronco and Fred Ramsdell, along with Japanese Shimon Sakaguchi, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for 2025, in recognition of their discoveries related to the immune system.
Here are the names of the Nobel Prize in Medicine winners over the past ten years:
- 2025: Mary E. Bronco and Fred Ramsdell (United States) and Shimon Sakaguchi (Japan) for their research on how the body controls the immune system.
- 2024: Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun (United States) for their discovery of microRNA, a new class of small DNA molecules playing a crucial role in regulating gene activity.
- 2023: Katalin Kariko (Hungary) and Drew Weissman (United States) for their discoveries concerning mRNA vaccines, paving the way for COVID-19 vaccines.
- 2022: Svante Pääbo (Sweden) for his role in determining the full sequence of ancient human genomes and establishing the field that attempts to understand the characteristics of human genes from ancient DNA.
- 2021: David Julius and Ardern Patapoutian (United States) for their discoveries concerning how the nervous system transmits signals related to heat and touch.
- 2020: Harvey Alter, Charles Rice (United States) and Michael Houghton (United Kingdom) for their role in discovering the virus responsible for hepatitis C.
- 2019: William Kaelin, Gregg Semenza (United States) and Peter Ratcliffe (United Kingdom) for discovering the molecular mechanisms responsible for how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen levels, opening therapeutic avenues for cancer and anemia.
- 2018: James P. Allison (United States) and Tasuku Honjo (Japan) for their research on immunotherapy, which proved to be particularly effective in treating deadly cancers.
- 2017: Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael W. Young (United States) for their discovery of molecular mechanisms that regulate the biological clock's rhythm.
- 2016: Yoshinori Ohsumi (Japan) for his research on autophagy of damaged cells."
