Nobel Prize week Day 1: Physiology or Medicine
Click to viewThe 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Svante Pääbo, whose affiliation at the time of the award is Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan.
Pääbo received the award for "sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans. He also made the sensational discovery of a previously unknown hominin, Denisova. Importantly, Pääbo also found that gene transfer had occurred from these now extinct hominins to Homo sapiens following the migration out of Africa around 70,000 years ago. This ancient flow of genes to present-day humans has physiological relevance today, for example affecting how our immune system reacts to infections."
ETA: His father, Sune Bergström, also won the Physiology/Medicine Nobel in 1982 for his work on prostaglandins.
The Max-Planck Institute had a strong showing with last year's awards and are starting out strong this year. Will California overtake them? Will the Ivy League show up at all? Stay tuned ONTD!
Tomorrow: Physics!
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