The Swedish geneticist was recognised for his work in sequencing the genome of the extinct Neanderthal, a close relative of modern humans.
Svante Pääbo has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2022.
The 2022 Nobel Prizes in Medicine:
Svante Pääbo, a Swedish geneticist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology in 2022. The Nobel Prize committee awarded Svante Pääbo the prize "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution." The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($900,357).
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Nobel Prizes in 2022: His research:
Svante Pääbo's pioneering research enabled him to do the seemingly impossible: sequence the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of modern humans. He also made the sensational discovery of Denisova, a previously unknown hominin. Pääbo also discovered gene transfer from these now-extinct hominins to Homo sapiens following the migration out of Africa around 70,000 years ago. This ancient gene flow to modern humans has physiological implications, such as influencing how our immune system responds to infections.
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Pääbo was hired as a Professor at the University of Munich in 1990, where he continued his research on archaic DNA. He chose to examine DNA from Neanderthal mitochondria, which are organelles within cells that contain their own DNA. Although the mitochondrial genome is small and contains only a small portion of the genetic information in the cell, it is present in thousands of copies, increasing the likelihood of success.
Svante Pääbo Biography:
Svante Pääbo (born 20 April 1955) is a Nobel Prize-winning Swedish geneticist who specialises in evolutionary genetics. He has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome as one of the founders of paleogenetics. In 1997, he was named director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology's Department of Genetics in Leipzig, Germany. He also teaches at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan.
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The Nobel Peace Prize:
The prestigious award includes a gold medal and 10 million Swedish kronor (approximately $1.14 million). The prize money was left by the prize's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895. Other awards are given for outstanding work in physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and economics.
Honors and awards
In 1992, he was awarded the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft's Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the highest honour in German research. In the year 2000, Pääbo was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the prestigious Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 2005. Pääbo was named to the Order Pour le Mérite des Sciences et des Arts in 2008. In the same year, he received the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award. The Foundation For the Future announced in October 2009 that Pääbo had been awarded the 2009 Kistler Prize for his work isolating and sequencing ancient DNA, which began in 1984 with a 2,400-year-old mummy. In June 2010, he was awarded the Theodor Bücher Medal by the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) for outstanding achievements in biochemistry and molecular biology. In 2013, he was awarded the Gruber Prize in Genetics for pioneering work in evolutionary genetics. He received his DSc (honoris causa) degree from NUI Galway in June 2015. In 2016, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, and in 2017, he received the Dan David Prize. For sequencing the first Neanderthal genome, he received the Princess of Asturias Awards in the category of Scientific Research in 2018, the Japan Prize in 2020, the Massry Prize in 2021, and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2022.
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