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The Swedish Society of Medicine (SSM) has decided to award the Pasteur medal to Professor Didier Pittet, director of the Infection Control Programme at the Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine. The Pasteur medal is awarded every ten years and rewards basic discoveries in bacterioloAlready a subscriber Login You…
Jack W Szostak was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009. Jack W Szostak, Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol Greider received the Medicine Nobel prize 2009 for “the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”. Unlike the other two lauAlready a subscriber…
Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe defined a system involved in inflammation, metabolism, cancer, and more. On 7 October 2019, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe was having a typical scientist’s day, writing a grant proposal. Then, Ratcliffe, who is Director of Clinical Research at the Francis Crick Institute and DireAlready a subscriber Login…
The Paolo Macchiarini scandal at the Karolinska Institutet has prompted Urban Lendahl, secretary general of the Nobel Assembly, to resign. Lendahl, a developmental geneticist at KI, was involved in hiring Macchiarini in 2010. A statement from the Nobel Committee yesterday said that Lendahl expeAlready a subscriber Login You have read all your…
