The Karolinska Institute in Stockholm announced on Monday that this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine will be awarded to Svante Papau, a researcher in Leipzig, Germany, for his findings on human evolution.
Babu is director and scientific member of the German Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, according to the German news agency.
Papo is the first researcher to, among other things, sequence the genome of Neanderthals.
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The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”
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Last year, the award went to researchers David Julius and Erdem Patbutian, for their discovery of cell receptors that humans use to sense
temperature and touch.
The Nobel Prizes are awarded 10 million Swedish crowns ($900,000) for each category.
2022 #NobelPrize laureate Svante Pääbo found that gene transfer had occurred from these now extinct hominins to Homo sapiens.
This ancient flow of genes to present-day humans has physiological relevance today, for example affecting how our immune system reacts to infections.
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The annual announcement of the Nobel Prizes is traditionally opened with the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Medicine at the beginning of October.
The Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry will be announced on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the Academy will announce on Thursday and Friday the winners of the
Literature and Peace Prizes, respectively.
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Finally, the Economics Prize will be announced next Monday.
The awards will be presented on the anniversary of Nobel's death on December 10.