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" |
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