The price in Medicine or Physiology went to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA. This category premieres the series of Nobel Prize winners 2024, which will once again distinguish the intellectual excellence into six categories.
The judgment was led by the Karolinska Institute from Stockholm this Monday. All winners have the same financial allocationthis year by 11 million Swedish crowns (approximately 1.1 million dollars or 968,000 euros). Prizes can be void, which has happened on 49 occasions, but since 1974 they cannot be awarded posthumously, unless the winner dies between the time the prize was awarded and the award was given.
The prizes will be awarded on December 10, coinciding with the anniversary of Nobel’s death, in a double ceremony at Konserthus in Stockholm and at Oslo City Hall.
two people having voluntarily refused a reward: the French writer Jean Paul Sartre, from Literature, in 1964; and the Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho, that of Peace, in 1973. There were four cases of forced rejection by their governments, the most famous, that of Boris Pasternak, whom the Soviet authorities forced not to accept in 1958, that of Literature
Last year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine
He Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology 2023 went to the researchers Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman for his discoveries on modifications of nucleoside bases which allowed the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
Thanks to his innovative discoveriess, which fundamentally changed the understanding of how mRNA interacts with the immune system, “the winners have contributed to the unprecedented pace of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times “, they emphasized during the organization of the awards ceremony. .
“With their fundamental discoveries about the importance of base modifications in mRNA, this year’s Nobel laureates have made fundamental contributions to transformative development during one of the greatest health crises of our time.” , added the committee.
