The winners for medicine are selected by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute Medical University and receive a prize sum of 11 million Swedish crowns.
Scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering microRNA and its role in gene regulation.
The winners for medicine are selected by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute Medical University and receive a prize sum of 11 million Swedish crowns.
Every year, the medicine prize is the first in the crop of Nobels, considerably one of the most prestigious awards in science, literature, and humanitarian endeavor, with the remaining five set to be unveiled.
Created in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel, the prizes have been awarded for breakthroughs in science, literature, and peace since 1901, while economics is an add-on.
Different institutions award prizes in various fields. Peace was the only one awarded in Oslo rather than Stockholm, possibly as a result of the political union that existed between the two Nordic countries when Nobel penned his will.
Last year’s medicine prize was awarded to the runaway favorites Katalin Kariko, a Hungarian scientist, and US colleague Drew Weissman, for discoveries that paved the way for COVID-19 vaccines that helped relieve the pandemic.
Past winners of the Nobel Medicine Prize include many famous researchers such as Ivan Pavlov 1904, who is most known for his experiments on behavior using dogs. Furthermore, Alexander Fleming shared the 1945 prize for the discovery of penicillin.
Impregnated with tradition, the science, literature, and economics prizes are presented to the laureates in a ceremony on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, followed by a lavish banquet at Stockholm city hall. Separate festivities attend the winner of the Peace Prize in Oslo on the same day.