STOCKHOLM: Scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun gained the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medication for the invention of microRNA and its function in gene regulation, the award-giving physique stated on Monday (Oct 7).
The winners for medication are chosen by the Nobel Meeting of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute medical college and obtain a prize sum of 11 million Swedish crowns (US$1.1 million).
As yearly, the medication prize is the primary within the crop of Nobels, arguably essentially the most prestigious prizes in science, literature and humanitarian endeavour, with the remaining 5 set to be unveiled over the approaching days.
Created within the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel, the prizes have been awarded for breakthroughs in science, literature and peace since 1901, whereas economics is a later addition.
Completely different establishments award the prizes in varied fields, with Peace being the one one awarded in Oslo somewhat than Stockholm, presumably on account of the political union that existed between the 2 Nordic international locations when Nobel penned his will.
Final yr’s medication prize was awarded to the runaway favourites Katalin Kariko, a Hungarian scientist, and US colleague Drew Weissman, for discoveries that paved the way in which for COVID-19 vaccines that helped curb the pandemic.
Previous winners of the Nobel medication prize embrace many well-known researchers similar to Ivan Pavlov in 1904, most identified for his experiments on behaviour utilizing canines, and Alexander Fleming, who shared the 1945 prize for the invention of penicillin.
Steeped in custom, the science, literature and economics prizes are introduced to the laureates in a ceremony on Dec 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s dying, adopted by a lavish banquet at Stockholm metropolis corridor. Separate festivities attend the winner of the peace prize in Oslo on the identical day.
