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Research Lectures at Nobel Forum 15 March, 16.30 Frontiers in inflammation research:  from NLRP3 to metabolic reprogramming Luke A.J. O’Neill School of Biochemistry and Immunology Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland https://www.tcd.ie/Biochemistry/research/l_o_neill.php The discovery of the NLRP3 inflammasome provided an important component in the inflammatory process, revealing a key mechanisms underlying the induction
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Nobel Lectures 2017 Date and time: December 7, 2017, 13.00 Location: Aula Medica, Nobels väg 6, Karolinska Institutet, Solna Free admission from 11.30. Seats must be taken by 12.40 Streaming to Nobel Forum, Wallenbergsalen Live broadcasting at www.nobelprize.org Lecture 1 Jeffrey C. Hall Brandeis University, Waltham, USA “The Little Flies: Multifaceted Basic Research Coming Out
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The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young Press release - ENG (PDF) Pressmeddelande SVENSKA (PDF) Advanced information (PDF)

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019 will be announced Monday October 7 at 11.30 at earliest, Nobel Forum, Nobels väg 1, 171 77 Stockholm. Registration and press id is required to attend the Press Conference. Registration: When  the  Secretary General begins his announcement at the Press Conference, the following information material will
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CANCELLED Research Lecture at Nobel Forum    Free admission  12 October,CANCELLED Michael W. Young Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor Laboratory of Genetics, The Rockefeller University New York, USA http://lab.rockefeller.edu/young/ Title: “Genetic regulation of sleep and circadian rhythms” Dr. Young studies circadian (~24 hour) clocks, which are endogenous mechanisms that time the recurring, daily activities observed in
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Nobel Laureate Revisiting Lecture Tuesday, April 4th, 2017, at 4.30 Stanley B. Prusiner Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1997 Title: Quest for prion therapeutics in neurodegenerative diseases Alzheimer’s (AD) and Parkinson’s diseases (PD) are the most common neuro-degenerative diseases (ND). Increasing evidence argues that both AD and PD are caused by prions. Ab and
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Research Lecture at Nobel Forum                               6 April, 16.30 Xiaodong Wang, Ph.D. National Institute of Biological Sciences, #7 Science Park Road, Zhongguancun Life Science Park, Beijing 102206, China. http://www.nibs.ac.cn Title: “Programmed Cell Death in Diseases and Aging” The longest ongoing research program of our laboratory studies apoptosis, i.e. caspase-mediated cell death. One of our most
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Research Lecture at Nobel Forum 16 March, 16.30 Hidde L. Ploegh                                                               Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research 9 Cambridge Center, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02142, USA http://ploeghlab.wi.mit.edu  Title: “Imaging immunity” Recent work in my laboratory has focused on applications of camelid-derived single domain antibodies. These protein, also referred to as VHHs or nanobodies, are small (~12 kDa), do
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