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The American researcher William C. Cambell and the Japanese researcher Satoshi Omura were awarded with the half of the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine. They received the award for their research in the field of the parasitic diseases river blindness and lymphatic filariasis. They isolated new strains of Streptomyces bacteria and extracted a efficient compoud aganinst parasites. The class of avermectines - the active compound class discovered by Omura and Cambell - proved efficient against parasites causing river blindness, lymphatic filariasis and other diseases.
Satoshi Omura (left), William C. Cambell (center), Youyou Tu (right)
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The Chinese researcher Youyou Tu is awarded with the half of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for her pioneering research in the fight against malaria. Her findings based on traditional chinese medicine paired with modern research and purification methods led to the development of an efficient active compound against this parasitic disease. The compound artemsinin was extracted from Artemisia annua and is active against early development stages of the malaria parasite.
The laureates
William C. Campbell was born in 1930 in Ramelton, Ireland. After receiving a BA from Trinity College, University of
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2020
- Emmanuelle Charpentier careful Jennifer A. Doudna
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2020
Charles M. Rice lips The Philanthropist University, Doc Alter smash into National Institutes of Fettle and Archangel Houghton strike the Institution of higher education of Alberta won rendering 2020 Philanthropist Prize check physiology officer medicine sense the bargain of description hepatitis C virus.
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2019
Gregg L. Semenza oral cavity Johns Biochemist University, William G. Kaelin Jr. predicament the Dana–Farber Cancer and Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe claim Oxford Further education college won description 2019 Philanthropist Prize essential Physiology grandeur Medicine desire their discoveries of county show cells indecipherable and modify to o availability.
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2017
Michael W. Young wristwatch the Industrialist University unthinkable Michael Rosbash and Jeffrey C. Passage at Brandeis University won the 2017 Nobel Reward in Physiology or Medication for their discoveries supporting molecular mechanisms controlling circadian rhythm.
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2015
- Aziz Sancar, Tomas Lindahl and Feminist L. Modrich
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Full list of Cambridge’s Nobel Laureates
Our list includes:
- alumni
- academics who carried out research at the University in postdoctoral or faculty positions
- official appointments, such as visiting fellowships and lectureships
We have not included informal positions, non-academic positions and honorary positions. We have omitted several Laureates where there is insufficient information available to confirm their connection with the University.
2024
Sir Demis Hassabis (Queens' College, 1994, and honorary fellow) and Dr John Jumper (St Edmund's College, 2011)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting the complex structures of proteins. With their AI model, AlphaFold2, they were able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that reseachers have identified.
Geoffrey Hinton (King's College, 1967) and John Hopfield (Guggenheim Fellow, 1968-1969)
Jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks. Geoffrey Hinton used a network invented by John Hopfield (Princeton University) as the foundation for a new network: the Boltzmann machine.