The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology was awarded today to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi. “For their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
The Royal Swedish Academy decided to award this prize jointly to the three researchers.
In addition they identified the “security guards” of the human immune system, scientifically known as regulatory T cells. Which prevent immune cells from attacking and damaging our own bodies.
Officially, it was noted that their discoveries have spurred the development of medical treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases. And may lead to more successful transplants. Several of these treatments are currently in clinical trials.
Mary E. Brunkow is a member of the Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, and Fred Ramsdell is a member of Sonoma Biotherapeutics, San Francisco, both in the United States. Meanwhile, Shimon Sakaguchi conducts his research at Osaka University in Japan.
Also every year in October, the winners of the Nobel Prizes are announced. These prizes honor personalities in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Physiology, Literature, Economics, and Peace.
Futhermore this award was established in 1901 in honor of the Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), discoverer of dynamite. The first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to German Emil Adolf von Behring for his work on serum therapy. Also particularly its use against diphtheria, a study that broke new ground in medical science.
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute has selected the laureates since 1901.
In conclusion the Nobel Prize in Medicine is the first in a series of awards for these prestigious prizes. Moreover with announcements for the other disciplines to follow in successive days.
With information from Prensa Latina
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