Three scientists win 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

On Monday (October 5), Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, announced that this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, thus kicking off this year’s Nobel Prize winning series.

This year's Nobel Prize prize is 12 million Swedish kronor (approximately 1.2 million US dollars), and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is the first award announced each year.

The Nobel Prize selection committee first announced the news on the

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Deisseroth is an American and currently works at Stanford University, while Hagermann and Nagel are both Germans. The former is a professor at Humboldt University and the latter is at the University of Würzburg.