Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi won this year’s Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize.
Mary Brunkow, a molecular biologist at the Institute for Systems Biology, Fred Ramsdell, an immunologist at Sonoma Biotherapeutics, and Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist at Osaka University won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning how immune tolerance prevents the immune system from attacking the body, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute announced today (October 6). Their discoveries lay the foundation for new and improved treatments for autoimmune disorders and cancers.
“Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi have provided fundamental knowledge for how the immune system is regulated,” said Marie Wahren-Herlenius, a rheumatologist at Karolinska Institute and member of the Nobel Committee. “[This research] relates to how we keep our immune system under control, so we can fight all imaginable microbes and still avoid autoimmune disease.”
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