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The Pfizer Medicine Award is a pure medical academic award organized by the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Korea and sponsored by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Korea and is awarded to medical scientists who have contributed to the development of medicine and human health.
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Korea announced on the 29th that Professor Jang Bo-geun of Jeju National University and Professors Kim Jung-seon and Kim Dong-wook of Yonsei University were selected as the winners of the 24th Pfizer Medical Award.
Professor Jang, who received the Basic Medicine Award, was recognized for his contribution to identifying the biological characteristics of each subtype of gastric intestinal metaplasia and the mechanism of gastric cancer development.
Intestinal metaplasia refers to a phenomenon in which the normal structure of the stomach mucosa is destroyed as an inflammatory reaction continues for a long time in the stomach, and cells similar to the mucosa of the small or large intestine are created in its place.
Professor Joong-seon Kim, winner of the Clinical Medicine Award, has conducted research to provide evidence for long-term antithrombotic treatment strategies for patients with atrial fibrillation who have entered a stable phase after drug-eluting stent surgery.
Professor Dong-Woo Kim, who received the Translational Medicine Award, expanded his research to develop cell therapy for Parkinson's disease to the clinical stage, presented new treatment possibilities, and established various technologies to prevent tumor formation.
The Pfizer Medicine Award is a pure medical academic award organized by the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Korea and sponsored by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Korea and is awarded to medical scientists who have contributed to the development of medicine and human health.
The awards ceremony will be held on November 4th. Each winner receives a prize of 50 million won and a plaque.

Belgian-born physicist Francis Halzen, 82, won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pivotal role in developing the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, which detected high-energy neutrinos from distant galaxies, opening a new window into the universe.
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