Nobel Prize laureates in medicine hope their work sheds light on autoimmune diseases
Nobel Prize laureates in medicine Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsell from the United States, and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan on Saturday said they hope their work helps to advance treatments for autoimmune disease and cancer. They won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work shedding light on how the immune system spares healthy cells. Shimon Sakaguchi, who discovered a class of immune cells and regulatory T cells, which protect the body from autoimmune diseases, said he hopes the breakthrough will help the world “recognize the importance” of medical research. The three scientists will be presented their prizes at a ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Wednesday which will be followed by a royal reception at the City Hall later in the evening.
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00:00How would you like, what legacy would you like this prize to be for this specific, for the research for which this prize has been awarded?
00:17What legacy do you see in this prize?
00:19And I hope that the awarding, receiving this Nobel Prize, our society will recognize that the importance of medical sciences, medical research.
00:38You have established a venture company, RegCell, to pursue the practical application for regularity T-cells.
00:48So could you please tell me the long-term goals once again?
00:57Please, Polish television.
01:01Yeah, microphone up.
01:08I certainly hope the actual prize discovery leads to therapies for people, and we're clearly working on that, and I feel optimistic about that.
01:21But I think the bigger issue and the bigger legacy aspect for me is that people recognize the value of basic research and supporting things that may take many years and a lot of time to come to fruition.
01:38Please.
01:41Hello, I'm Corinne Anagra from Radio Romania Science Department, and I have two questions for Professor Ramsdell.
01:48First of all, do you think that nowadays in the...
01:53But I am even more humbled and gratified by what the prize means, or rather what the work that's being honored by the prize means,
02:02because I really do see the huge impact that it's had.
02:08Yeah, go ahead, please, Dr. Ramsdell.
02:13Without that work, none of us would be sitting at this podium, obviously.
02:17He wouldn't, but neither would Mary and I right now, so...
02:20I'm more senior than these two people.
02:24It's very rewarding for us to hear that the Nobel laureates agrees with the committee.
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