Like every year, it's the return of the Nobel Prizes.

That of Medicine opens this Monday the season of the famous philanthropic awards, under the dark screed of an ongoing war in Europe.

Born into the optimism of the Belle Epoque more than 120 years ago, the Nobel Prize winners find themselves again confronted with the telescoping between the celebration of "benefactors of humanity" and a year particularly heavy in tragedies.

The award for medicine or physiology will be announced around 11:30 a.m. in Stockholm.

Physics will follow on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday, then the two most anticipated prizes: literature on Thursday and peace on Friday, the only prize announced in Oslo.

The economy price, of more recent creation, will close the 2022 vintage next Monday.

Mary-Claire King oft-quoted

For medicine, the name of a woman comes up regularly this year among prediction experts: that of the American geneticist Mary-Claire King.

In 1990, she discovered a gene responsible for breast cancer, the most common malignancy in women.

At 76, she could be crowned with other pioneers of a therapeutic antibody against breast cancer, her compatriot Dennis Slamon and the German Axel Ullrich, at the origin of the trastuzumab treatment.

If the Nobel jury breaks with its cautious tendency to crown old discoveries, another woman has every chance for her role against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Already crowned for two years with almost all the other major medical awards, the American-Hungarian Katalin Kariko, long a marginalized researcher, would obtain the Holy Grail for her role as a pioneer in messenger RNA vaccines.

In the event of a prize for vaccines, she could be crowned with her American sidekick Drew Weissman and the Canadian Pieter Cullis.

Last year, the prize went to two Americans, David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, for their discoveries on how touch works.

A price related to physiology which suggests a more medical price this year, according to David Pendlebury.

This head of the Clarivate organization maintains a closely followed list of several dozen Nobel Prize winners for scientific prizes.

He cites for example the Hong Konger Yuk Ming Dennis Lo, a pioneer who developed a non-invasive prenatal diagnosis, making it possible to limit the use of heavier amniocentesis.

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