The Nobel Prize for Medicine will be announced on Monday

The prize is awarded to specialists responsible for discoveries that have “changed scientific paradigms and brought great benefits to humanity”

THE Nobel Prize for Medicine 2024 will be announced this Monday, 7, at 6:30 (Brasilia time), at the Nobel Assembly, at the Karolinska Institute, in Stockholm, in Sweden. The prize is awarded to those responsible for discoveries of great importance in the fields of biological sciences or medicine.

In addition to the medal and diploma, the winners take home a significant sum of money, 11 million Swedish kronor (approximately R$5.79 million).

The Medicine Prize has been awarded since 1901, the year in which the prize began, following the guidelines left posthumously in the will of the Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel (1833-1896).

Last year, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to those responsible for creating the mRNA vaccine technology: Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó and American immunologist Drew Weissman.

The duo’s discoveries, the result of research in basic science, led to the development of vaccines against Covid-19 in record time in 2020. The vaccine was humanity’s main weapon in stopping the largest pandemic of the last century , with almost 7 million victims all over the world (of which 700 thousand in Brazil).

The 50-member Nobel Assembly is responsible for selecting winners from among the candidates nominated by the Nobel Committee for Medicine. The names of the candidates are not made public. The Nobel rewards only living doctors and scientists; there are no posthumous awards.

Between 1901 and 2023, 114 medical prizes were awarded. On nine occasions the prize was not awarded: 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1921, 1925, 1940, 1941 and 1942. According to the statute of the Nobel Foundation, if none of the nominated works meets the required prerogatives, the prize may not be awarded. delivered. Additionally, fewer prizes were awarded during World War I and World War II.

Remembering that the prize can be awarded to a maximum of three people, between 1901 and 2023 227 scientists have been awarded in this category. Of this total, only 13 were women, including Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó, one of last year’s winners, featured on this list.

The youngest Nobel Prize winner in medicine was Frederick G. Banting, in 1923, at the age of 31, for the discovery of insulin. The oldest was Peyton Rous, awarded in 1966, when he was 87 years old, for discovering the existence of viruses capable of inducing the formation of tumors.

Source: Terra

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