Nobel Prize for Svante Pääbo

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine Professor Svante Pääbo. Photo: Frank Vinke
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine Professor Svante Pääbo. Photo: Frank Vinken, Max Planck Society

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This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to Professor Svante Pääbo. This was announced by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute yesterday (4 October 2022) in Stockholm. Pääbo is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and honorary professor at Leipzig University.

In its justification, the Nobel Committee stated that his seminal research had given rise to the new scientific discipline of -palaeogenomics-. In this research discipline, scientists are concerned with the analysis of genetic samples from fossils and prehistoric finds. ...

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