Svante Pabo wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Category : Awards Published on: October 05 2022

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Svante Pääbo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.
Pääbo sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans. He also made the sensational discovery of a previously unknown hominin, Denisova.
Svante Pääbo is Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and 10 million Swedish kronor (over $1.14 million). The prize money comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895.
Last year’s prize went to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian jointly for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.
A total of 112 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have been awarded between 1901 and 2021, of which only 12 have been women.