The Nobel prize in medicine was given for the study samopoedaniya cells – RBC

a portrait of the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine, Yoshinori Osumi of the Presidium of the Nobel Committee. Stockholm, October 3, 2016

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the Nobel Committee announced the winner of the prize of 2016 in physiology or medicine became a Japanese Yoshinori Osumi. The award he received for the study of autophagy, a mechanism of degradation, or samopoedaniya and disposal of cells

on Monday, October 3, in Stockholm started the Nobel prize week — with the announcement of the prize laureates in physiology and medicine. The winner of the award was Yoshinori Osumi from Tokyo Institute of technology, said in a statement on the website of the Nobel Committee.

Osumi awarded for “discoveries in the field of autophagy cells”. Autophagy (from the Greek-samopouzdanje) is the process of degradation and recycling of cells.

a Year earlier the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine was given to the team of biologists: the Chinese Yu The Japanese Satoshi Omura and Irish-American William Campbell. The award of the Nobel Committee they received for the development of new treatments for diseases.

Since 2012 and still the Nobel prize is 8 million Swedish kronor, before more than ten years, the amount of the award was 10 million SEK. The award amount was slightly reduced to purchasing power he is the most consistent with the initial prize in 1901 — then the sum 150,8 thousand crowns.

Previously, a research unit of Thomson Reuters released its annual forecast, which includes three groups of scientists or individual researchers) in each category who theoretically have a chance to receive the Nobel prize. The first candidate was called a team of American professors James Ellison, Jeffrey Bluestone and Craig Thompson for an explanation of how protein cells are CD28 and CTLA-4 activates T-lymphocytes to protect the immune system.