Nobel Prize season begins: Who wins the 2025 medical price?

Nobel Prize season begins: Who wins the 2025 medical price?

In Stockholm everything is being executed today for the first Nobel Prize of the Year. From 11.30 a.m., the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute announces who will be honored in the Medicine category this year with one of the most sought-after awards. This tradition that the Nobel Prize for Medicine is the first of the prices has established itself since the first prizes were awarded in 1901 when the first Nobel Prize for Medicine went to Emil von Behring. The entire Nobel Prize Awards includes further categories such as physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics, which will follow in the coming days. With eleven million Swedish crowns, about one million euros, the price for the award winners is not only an honor, but also a lucrative business.

The Nobel Prize was launched by Alfred Nobel, whose will of 1895 regulates the allocation of these prices. With the awards, Nobel wanted to honor people who performed the most benefits for humanity last year. The award of the prices should not depend on nationalities, but solely on the worthiness of the candidates. Nobel prices have produced an impressive list of award winners over the years. So far, a total of 229 awards have been awarded in the Medicine category, including eleven to women. It is noteworthy that the only German woman is among the award winners Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. The last German award winner in this category was Thomas Südhof in 2013.

The development of Nobel Prices

The first Nobel Prize ceremony took place over a century ago, and since then the list of award winners has produced remarkable personalities. The concise names include Edward Calvin Kendall and Tadeus Reichstein, who were awarded the hormones of the adrenal bark for their discoveries in 1950, or Selman Abraham Waksman, who was honored in 1952 as the discoverer of streptomycin, the first antibiotic against tuberculosis. Hans Adolf Krebs, known for the citric acid cycle, and other scientists have made great progress in the field of medicine in the past that were of immense value for humanity.

A look at this year's developments suggests that the current research work also has a significant impact on medical science. Last year, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun received the prize for their groundbreaking discovery of the MicroRorna, which has the potential to revolutionize our use of numerous diseases.

View into the future

On December 10th, Alfred Nobel's death, the award winners will be officially awarded as part of a solemn ceremony. Nobel prices are in international focus and draw attention to the significant progress that is made in research. It remains to be seen who can get the honor today to be included in the renowned ranks of the Nobel Prize winners in the Medicine category.

In this sense, we look at the announcement - who will write the next chapter in the exciting history of Nobel Prices?