The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
with one half jointly to
William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura
for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites
and the other half to
Youyou Tu
for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria
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The Nobel Assembly, consisting of 50 professors at Karolinska Institutet, awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Its Nobel Committee evaluates the nominations. Since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded to scientists who have made the most important discoveries for the benefit of mankind.
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