Next Nobel week will open in the Swedish capital with the announcement of the name of the winner of the prize in the field of physiology or medicine. In the coming days, award winners in other categories will be announced.
Day.Az reports this with reference to TASS.
On October 8, the decision of the Nobel Committee in Physics will be announced, on October 9 – in Chemistry, on October 10 – in Literature, and on October 11 in Oslo the winner of the Peace Prize will be named. The winner of the Alfred Nobel Prize in Economics, established by the State Bank of Sweden in 1968, will be determined on October 14.
Contenders
In his will, Nobel (1833-1896) entrusted the selection of the laureate in physiology or medicine to the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, founded in 1810 and now one of the leading educational and scientific medical centers in the world. The Nobel Committee created under him consists of five permanent members who have the right to invite experts for consultations. The nomination period closed on January 31, after which the review process began.
Until the last moment, the Nobel committees do not report anything about the candidates for the prize themselves, or about those who nominated them. Experts make assumptions about names kept secret.
Swedish experts have believed for several years that the American Mary-Claire King, who discovered the BRCA1 gene for hereditary breast cancer, has a chance of becoming a laureate. Also named in this category is Steven Rosenberg, a pioneer in cancer immunotherapy research from the United States.
The American company Clarivate tries to predict who will receive awards based on the citation ranking of scientists. Her list includes, in particular, Americans Jonathan Cohen and Helen Hobbs “for their research into the genetics of lipid metabolism, which led to the creation of new drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.”
Clarivate also lists among its favorites neuroscientists American Anne Graybiel, Japanese Okihide Hikosaka and British-German researcher Wolfram Schultz, who may receive the prize “for physiological studies of the basal ganglia, central to movement control and behavior, including learning.”
Other possible winners include evolutionary biologists Davor Solter, a native of Yugoslavia working in Germany, and Kenyan-British scientist Azim Surani, who may be awarded the prize “for their discovery of genomic imprinting, deepening our understanding of epigenetics and mammalian development.”