The winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be announced in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, after 2:6 p.m. on the 30nd Japan time.
We will update the contents of the award announcement press conference from time to time.
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Based on the will of Alfred Nobel of Sweden, who invented dynamite, the Nobel Prize is supposed to be awarded to "those who have made the greatest contribution to humanity."
This year's winners are announced on
the 2nd for the Physiology or Medicine Prize, the 3rd for the Physics Prize, the 4th for the Chemistry Prize, the 5th for the Literature Prize, the 6th for the Peace Prize, and the 9th for the Economics Prize
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Japan of the 28 awardees, including those who have acquired U.S. citizenship, have received all 2000 awards since 20 in the field of natural sciences: the Physiology or Medicine Prize, the Physics Prize, and the Chemistry Prize, the second largest number after the United States in this period.
On the other hand, no one has won the Literature Prize since Kenzaburo Oe in 3 and the Peace Prize since former Prime Minister Eisaku Sato in 2.
It will be interesting to see if Yoshiro Manabe won the Physics Prize for the first time in two years that Japan people have received the award.
Physiology or Medicine Prize Notable researchers are:
Shifumi Sakaguchi (left) Chuzo Kishimoto (right)
Every year, in the field of immunology, where there are many influential researchers in the Japan, Shifumi Sakaguchi, a specially appointed professor at Osaka University, who discovered "regulatory T cells" that suppress excessive immune response, and Chuzo Kishimoto, a specially appointed professor at Osaka University who discovered a protein called "interleukin-6" that strengthens the function of immunity, have received international awards so far.
Akira Endo (left) Hiroaki Mitsuya (right)
Among the researchers contributing to the treatment of diseases, Akira Endo, a professor emeritus at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, who discovered that a substance called "statin" produced by blue mold lowers cholesterol in the blood that causes arteriosclerosis, and contributed to the development of therapeutic drugs, and discovered compounds that suppress the growth of HIV. Dr. Hiroaki Mitsuya, Director of the Research Institute of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine, who developed the world's first therapeutic drug for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, is attracting attention.
Masatoshi Takeichi (left), Kazutoshi Mori (center), Masashi Yanagisawa (right)
In other fields, Masatoshi Takeichi, an honorary researcher at RIKEN who discovered cadherin, a molecule that connects cells to form organs, and Kazutoshi Mori, a professor at Kyoto University who elucidated the mechanism by which a cellular organ called the endoplasmic reticulum repairs and decomposes defective proteins, have also received international academic awards and are attracting attention.
In addition, Dr. Masashi Yanagisawa, Director of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine at the University of Tsukuba, who discovered that a substance that transmits nerve signals called "orexin" secreted in the brain is involved in the regulation of sleep, announced in September 2023 that a British academic information service company will be a researcher who is considered to be a promising candidate for the award in the future.