Nobel Prize: How 2019's winners are revolutionising medicine :The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to three physician-scientists for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability
- 2019
- Chennai 11-10-2019
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to three physician-scientists for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.
The three scientists are William Kaelin, a cancer researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; Peter Ratcliffe, a physician-scientist at the University of Oxford, UK and the Francis Crick Institute in London; and Gregg Semenza, a geneticist at Johns Hopkins University, Maryland.
The team also won the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award in 2016.