Medication award kicks off week of Nobel Prize bulletins

The primary of the 2021 Nobel Prizes is introduced Monday with the naming of the winner, or winners, within the subject of physiology or drugs. A panel on the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm will announce the recipient after 11:30 a.m. (0930 GMT).

Final yr’s prize went to 3 scientists who found the liver-ravaging hepatitis C virus, a breakthrough that led to cures for the lethal illness and checks to maintain the scourge from spreading although blood banks.

The Nobel Meeting typically commends primary science, however sensible functions are additionally typically acknowledged. This might increase the possibilities of these concerned in creating vaccines towards the coronavirus getting the prize.

The distinguished award comes with a gold medal and 10 million Swedish kronor (over USD 1.14 million). The prize cash comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895.

The opposite prizes are for excellent work within the fields of physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics.