List of Nobel Laureates in Medicine
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Year | Names | Discoveries |
2013 |
James E. Rothman Randy W. Schekman Thomas C. Sudhof |
"for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells" |
2012 |
Sir John B. Gurdon Shinya Yamanaka |
"for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent" |
2011 |
Bruce A. Beutler Jules A. Hoffmann Ralph M. Steinman |
"for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman "for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity" |
2010 |
Robert G. Edwards |
"for the development of in vitro fertilization" |
2009 |
Elizabeth H. Blackburn Carol W. Greider Jack W. Szostak |
"for studying the way chromosomes are protected and for discovering the ‘immortality enzyme’ telomerase" |
2008 |
Harald zur Hausen Francoise Barre-Sinoussi Luc Montagnier |
"for their work on viruses" |
2007 |
Mario R. Capecchi Sir Martin J. Evans Oliver Smithies |
"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells" |
2006 |
Andrew Z. Fire Craig C. Mello |
"for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA" |
2005 |
Barry J. Marshall J. Robin Warren |
"for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease" |
2004 |
Richard Axel Linda B. Buck |
"for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system" |