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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet today awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Dr. Mary E. Brunkow of the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), together with Dr. Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi, for groundbreaking discoveries explaining how the immune system prevents attacks on the body’s own tissues (peripheral immune tolerance). Learn more!