Nobel Prize winners

2020

• Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna

Emmanuelle Charpentier at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and Jennifer A. Doudna at the University of California, Berkeley, won the 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry for the development of the CRISPR-Cas9 method for genome editing.

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2020

• Charles Rice

Charles M. Rice at The Rockefeller University, Harvey Alter at National Institutes of Health and Michael Houghton at the University of Alberta won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.

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2019

• Gregg Semenza

Gregg L. Semenza at Johns Hopkins University, William G. Kaelin Jr. at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe at Oxford University won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.

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2017

• Michael W. Young

Michael W. Young at the Rockefeller University and Michael Rosbash and Jeffrey C. Hall at Brandeis University won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling circadian rhythm.

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2015

• Aziz Sancar, Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich

Aziz Sancar of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with Tomas Lindahl at the Francis Crick Institute in London and Paul Modrich at Duke University School of Medicine, won the Nobel in chemistry for having mapped, at a molecular level, how cells repair damaged DNA and safeguard the genetic information.

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2015

• Satoshi Ōmura

Satoshi Ōmura of Kitasato University was one of three winners of the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for their work on therapies for parasitic infections. Ōmura won half of the prize with William Campbell of Drew University for the discovery of avermectins, which have radically lowered the incidence of river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.

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2013

• Michael Levitt

Michael Levitt of the Stanford University School of Medicine shared the Nobel prize for chemistry with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.

2013

• James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas Südhof

James Rothman of Yale University, Randy Schekman at the University of California, Berkeley, and Thomas Südhof at Stanford University, shared the Nobel for physiology or medicine for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.

2012

• Brian K. Kobilka and Robert J. Lefkowitz

Brian K. Kobilka of the Stanford University School of Medicine and Robert J. Lefkowitz of Duke University Medical Center won the Nobel for chemistry for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors. Together, they helped explain how cells sense and react to chemical messages.