Talk:2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Possible Nominees[edit]
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Possible nominees[edit]
Among the strongest contenders believed by numerous medical institutes for the 2020 prize were the following medical researchers and physiologists:
| Nominee | Country | Motivation | Institute(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edwin Southern (b. 1938) |
 United Kingdom
|
"for developing Southern blot, a method that can detect specific DNA sequences in samples."[1] | University of Oxford University of Edinburgh |
| Alec Jeffreys (b. 1950) |
United Kingdom
|
"for developing DNA fingerprinting, a technique that can identify an individual’s specific DNA characteristics."[1] | University of Amsterdam University of Leicester |
| Kazutoshi Mori (b. 1958) |
 Japan
|
"for their discovery concerning the unfolded protein response (UPR) of the endoplasmic reticulum."[1] | Kyoto University |
| Peter Walter (b. 1954) |
 Germany United States
|
University of California, San Francisco | |
| Mary-Claire King (b. 1946) |
United States
|
"for the discovery of BRCA1, the genetic mutation responsible for the heritability of breast cancer.[1] | University of Washington |
| Mark Skolnick (b. 1946) |
United States
|
"for successfully cloning the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 and discovering the full-length sequence of BRCA2."[1] | University of Utah |
| Jennifer Doudna (b. 1964) |
United States
|
"for the development of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology."[1] | University of Colorado, Boulder Gladstone Institutes |
| Emmanuelle Charpentier (b. 1968) |
 France
|
Humboldt University Max Planck Society | |
| Feng Zhang (b. 1981) |
 China United States
|
Broad Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Adrian Bird (b. 1947) |
United Kingdom
|
"for their discoveries of how genes are turned on and of by modifications to our DNA."[2] | University of Edinburgh |
| Howard Cedar (b. 1943) |
 Israel
|
Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
| Pierre Chambon (b. 1931) |
France
|
"for the invention of the superfamily of nuclear hormone receptors, and for the interpretation of the combining mechanism that regulates embryonic development and diverse metabolic pathways."[2] | Institute for Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Biology |
| Ronald M. Evans (b. 1949) |
United States
|
Salk Institute for Biological Studies | |
| Dennis Slamon (b. 1948) |
United States
|
"for discovering a breast cancer gene called HER2/neu and the treatment to reverse its tumor-growing effects."[2] | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Daniel J. Klionsky (b. 1958) |
United States
|
"for describing how cells break down and reabsorb their worn-out machinery."[2] | University of Michigan |
| Noboru Mizushima (b. 1966) |
Japan
|
University of Tokyo | |
| Hans Clevers (b. 1957) |
 Netherlands
|
"for the discovery of how organoids, which are 3-dimensional in vitro structures that behave anatomically and molecularly like the organ from which they are derived."[3] | Hubrecht Institute |
| Max Dale Cooper (b. 1933) |
United States
|
"for the discovery about the organization and function of the human immune system, in particular B cells and T cells."[4] | Emory University School of Medicine |
| Jacques Miller (b. 1931) |
United States
|
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute | |
| Huda Zoghbi (b. 1954) |
 Lebanon
|
"for her discoveries on the pathogenesis of neurological disorders including the genetic origins of Rett syndrome."[4][5] | Baylor College of Medicine Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Yusuke Nakamura (b. 1952) |
Japan
|
"for his pioneering research developing and applying genetic polymorphic markers and for contributions to genome-wide association studies, both heralding personalized approaches to cancer treatment."[5] | Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research |
| Pamela J. Bjorkman (b. 1956) |
United States
|
"for determining the structure and function of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins, a landmark discovery in molecular immunology that has contributed to drug and vaccine development."[5] | California Institute of Technology Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Jack L. Strominger (b. 1925) |
United States
|
Harvard University |
JB Hoang Tam (talk) 08:35, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
References
- ^ a b c d e f Aspen Lin (25 September 2020). "Who will win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?". Molecular Cloud. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ^ a b c d Pavithra Periswamy (30 September 2020). "Who do you think may have chances to win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?". Molecular Cloud. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ^ "Nine Nobel Prize Predictions for 2020". Inside Science. 1 October 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ^ a b Katie Kunt (2 October 2022). "Why it's so hard to guess who's going to get a Nobel Prize". CNN. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ^ a b c "Clarivate Reveals 2020 Citation Laureates - Annual List of Researchers of Nobel Class". Clarivate. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2022.