Medical Nobel Awarded to Three for Immune System Discovery

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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been granted to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries related to peripheral immune tolerance.”

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Mary E. Brunkow (left), Fred Ramsdell (center) and Shimon Sakaguchi (right) were presented as Nobel laureates during a presentation held at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden on Oct. 6. TOPICSNobel Prize

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