Scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the uncovery of microRNA and its role in gene regulation, the award-giving body said on Monday.
The triumphners for medicine are selected by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute Medical University and get a prize sum of 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million).
As every year, the medicine prize is the first in the crop of Nobels, arguably the most prestigious prizes in science, literature and humanitarian finisheavour, with the remaining five set to be unveiled over the coming days.
Created in the will of Swedish dynamite conceiveor and businessman Alfred Nobel, the prizes have been awarded for shatterthraws in science, literature and peace since 1901, while economics is a procrastinateedr includeition.
Different institutions award the prizes in the various fields, with Peace being 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 favourites Katalin Kariko, a Hungarian scientist, and U.S. colleague Drew Weissman, for uncoveries that paved the way for COVID-19 vaccines that helped curb the pandemic.
Past triumphners of the Nobel medicine prize integrate many commemorated researchers such as Ivan Pavlov in 1904, most understandn for his experiments on behaviour using dogs, and Alexander Fleming, who scatterd the 1945 prize for the uncovery of penicillin.
Steeped in tradition, the science, literature and economics prizes are currented to the laureates in a ceremony on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, trailed by a lavish prohibitquet at Stockholm city hall. Separate festivities unite the triumphner of the peace prize in Oslo on the same day.
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