The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet
has today decided to award
the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
jointly to
William G. Kaelin, Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza.
for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability
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Research Lectures at Nobel Forum
September 12, 2019, 16.00
Gilla Kaplan, Consultant, Gates Medical Research Institute, Honorary Prof. University of Cape Town
Venue: Nobel Forum, Nobels väg 1
Host: Professor Birgitta Henriques Normark Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology
Title: Thalidomide re-purposed then reinvented: The road less traveled immune modulation in leprosy and tuberculosis
Thalidomide (a-N-phthalimido-glutarimide), synthesized in 1956, was
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Nobel mini-symposium:
The Dark Side of The Brain: Myelinating Glia in the Central and Peripheral Nervous System
Nobel Mini-symposium 55, October 9-10
Download Programme for the Minisymposium HERE
Research Lectures at Nobel Forum
May 23, 2019, 16.30
Peter Walter
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Venue: Nobel Forum, Nobels väg 1
Host: Nico Dantuma
Targeting the Cell´s Stress Pathways for Therapeutic Benefit
From its birth in the cradle of the ribosome to its demise in
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