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Nobel Prize

Medical discoveries recognised by the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

People in Nobel Prize

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Helping make messenger RNA usable in vaccines through discoveries about modified RNA.

Helping develop medicines for leukaemia, organ transplantation and viral infections.

Co-developing the technique used to produce monoclonal antibodies.

Pioneering immunology and developing Salvarsan, an early targeted treatment for syphilis.

Showing that inherited genes influence immune responses.

Discovering, with Katalin Karikó, RNA modifications that helped make effective mRNA vaccines possible.

Developing serum treatment against diphtheria, earning the first Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Discovering growth factors that help explain how cells grow and respond to signals.

Showing how mosquitoes carry malaria parasites.

Revealing how chemical signals change the activity of nerve cells.

Discovering the parasite responsible for malaria.

Identifying molecular sensors that help the body detect heat and cold.

Discovering an enzyme that enabled laboratory synthesis of RNA.