Nobel For Medicine in Brukow, Ramsdell and Sakaguchi for research on the immune system | EUROtoday

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The Nobel for Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brukow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for the invention of the mechanism with which the immune system reacts to infections.

“Their discoveries laid the foundations for a new field of research and stimulated the development of new treatments, for example for cancer and autoimmune diseases”, says the motivation. To announce the winners from the Karolinska Institutet of Stockholm, in Sweden, was the secretary basic of the Nobel Assembly, Thomas Perlman. The three scientists will divide 11 million Swedish crowns, the identical quantity of the final 2 years, equal to about 1 million euros.

Studies on the immune system

Brukow, Ramsdell and Sakaguchi, reads the motivation of recognition, “identified the” security guards “of the immune system, the regulatory T cells, thus laying the foundations for a new research field. Their discoveries also led to the development of potential medical treatments, currently being evaluated in clinical studies. The goal is to be able to treat or treat autoimmune diseases, provide more effective oncological therapies and prevent serious complications after stem cell transplants ».