Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries about the regulation of the human immune system, boosting the hunt for new treatments for cancers and other diseases.
The three scientists will share SKr11mn ($1.17mn) for their work on what prevents immune cells from attacking the body, the Nobel Assembly said on Monday as it announced the first of its six annual awards.
The winners are part of a wider quest to investigate the complexities of human disease defence mechanisms, to harness them to fight off microbes and to understand why they attack the body’s own tissues and cells in so-called autoimmune conditions.
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