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For press already registered to attend the Nobel Lectures in Physiology or Medicine, December 7, Aula Medica, Nobels väg 6, Karolinska Institutet. Individual accreditations are mandatory for media representatives due to limited space in the media section (registration now closed). Press badge needed for entrance to the Aula Medica Lecture hall on the 7th of
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Karolinska Research Lectures at NOBEL FORUM November 5, 16.30, Free admission Speaker: Huda Y. Zoghbi Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, at Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, USA Lab webpage:  https://www.bcm.edu/research/labs/huda-zoghbi Titel: Lessons in neuronal function from Rett syndrome and related disorders Rett Syndrome is a fascinating disease for scientists and an unmitigated tragedy for parents: children are apparently
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The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites and the other half to Youyou Tu for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria
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Karolinska Research Lectures at NOBEL FORUM October 15, 16.30 John O'Shea National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Scientific Director, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA http://irp.nih.gov/pi/john-oshea Title: Basic and Applied Cytokine Signaling: From Jakinibs to Super-enhancers Cytokines are critical for all phases of immune responses, with key functions ranging from supporting hematopoiesis to promoting
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be announced Monday October 5 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 become available
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Karolinska Research Lectures at NOBEL FORUM September 17, 16.30 Vijay K. Kuchroo Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. http://kuchroo-lab.bwh.harvard.edu/ Title: Single-cell genomics identifies novel regulators of metabolic andfunctional states of Th17 cells Recently a subset of interleukin (IL)-17-producing T cells
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Nobel Minisymposium No. 52 in the series Frontiers in Medicine,  Epigenetics in Health and Disease , April 23rd  2015, Nobel Forum at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm  Epigenetics is increasingly recognized as a fundamentally important area of medical research, and is currently a rapidly evolving field.  This Frontiers in Medicine Nobel Minisymposium brings together key opinion leaders
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Nobel Laureate Revisiting Lecture Jack Szostak, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2009 Wednesday, April 15th at 16.30 Title: “The Origins of Cellular Life” Primitive cells consisting of a self-replicating nucleic acid genome encapsulated within a self-replicating membrane would have depended upon a rich, complex and variable environment to drive their reproduction. I will describe
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