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October 07, 2019The 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza for their findings on how cells adapt to oxygen availability.

Willian Kailin, Peter Radcliffe and Gress Semenza won the Nobel Prize for discovering how cells use oxygen. This mechanism is of crucial importance for keeping cells healthy and having discovered it has opened the way to the understanding of many diseases, first of all anemia and tumors.

The announcement was made every year by the Karolinska Institutet of Stockholm in Sweden, live via the Internet and social networks. The recognition amounts to 9 million Swedish crowns, at today's rate around 830 thousand euros.