Nobel Prize in medicine for combating parasites. Three scientists has saved millions of people – Gazeta Wyborcza

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Nobel Prize winners for outstanding achievements in Physiology or Medicine (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP / EAST NEWS)

                  
                  
                  

                  
             

             
   
   
   
 
 
 
 

This year's Nobel Prize for outstanding achievements in Physiology or Medicine went to three scientists: Irishman William C. Campbell, Japanese Satoshi Omura and Tu Youyou Chinese women. Drugs that Nobel Laureates have discovered, completely changed the way treatments for parasites and saved millions of lives. There were a revolution in medicine.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                          
 

                 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

         

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On Monday morning the Swedish Academy presented the first of this year's Nobel Prize winners. In the first place distinguished researchers in physiology or medicine. Nobel in these areas is one of five prizes established in the will of Alfred Nobel. By 2014 he was awarded 207 such awards, which hit a total of 105 people. Last year was awarded scientists who discovered and studied our internal GPS in the brain.

Nobel Prize for fighting parasites

The winners of this year's Nobel Prize was announced in Karolinska Institute - a medical university in Stockholm. It Nobel Assembly of the Institute decides who should be the prize for medicine. The Assembly includes 50 professors who this year had no doubts. - 2015 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology received the William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura and Tu Youyou for new therapies to combat parasitic infections - announced on Monday the Nobel Committee.

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- The Nobel Prize (NobelPrize) October 5, 2015

William C. Campbell (born in Ireland, is currently working in the USA) and Satoshi Omura (Japan) received the award for his discovery of avermectin - a cure for elephantiasis, who saved hundreds of millions humans. Elephantiasis is a parasitic disease caused by nematodes.

The other half of the prize, which is 8 million Swedish crowns (approx. 850 thousand. Euros), will receive Youyou here from China. There are 12 women who received the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology. She was honored for the discovery of artemether - a cure for malaria caused by parasitic protozoa of the genus Plasmodium, transmitted by malarial mosquitoes. Artemether is extracted from sweet wormwood, a relative of wormwood herb. Also this drug has saved millions of lives.

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- The Nobel Prize (NobelPrize) October 5, 2015

Both drugs developed by Nobel Prize winners - anti-malarial and anti słoniowaciźnie - completely changed the method of treating these diseases. There were a revolution in medicine, he had been waiting world. With the discoveries were saved or improved the quality of life of 3.4 billion people living in countries where these diseases are endemic. The drug developed by a Chinese woman in 30 years of its use by half reduced the mortality from malaria.

- The study distinguished scientists actually affected human health and serve humanity. Nobel would today be happy - justified the selection of the winners of the Nobel Committee.

Statistics Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Since 1901 granted the 105 awards , awarding a total of 207 scientists (no prizes awarded only in the years 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1921, 1925, 1940, 1941 and 1942).

Among the winners is 11 women .

The most common dates of birth previous laureates are: May 21 and February 28 .

The average age of winners is 58 years . - The youngest winner was Frederick Grant Banting from Canada, who was 32 years old when in 1923 receive the prize (he got it together with John James Richard McLeod, for the discovery of insulin)

The oldest was Peyton Rous (USA), which was awarded for the discovery of viruses that induce the formation of tumors. When you receive an award in 1966 he ended 87 years.

No one got the Nobel Prize in medicine twice. Twice awarded were for marriage: * In 1966, Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerthy Theresa Radnitz-Cori for the discovery trail catalytic conversion of glycogen; * In 2004 May-Britt and Edvard I. Moser for the discovery of brain "of the internal GPS" means neurons that allow orientation in space.

Top prize was previously awarded for research in genetics - 48 times.

         

         

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