# Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureates of the 2010s

Every Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate between 2010 and 2019, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?

- 38 votes · 24 items
- Oct 16, 2022 · msfieldnotes
- https://even.best/en/l/1238/nobel-prize-in-physiology-or-medicine-laureates-of-the-2010s

## Top 24

1. **Bruce A. Beutler** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 2011. For their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity.
2. **Robert G. Edwards** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 2010. For the development of in vitro fertilization.
3. **Thomas C. Südhof** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 2013. For their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.
4. **Jules A. Hoffmann** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2011. For their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity.
5. **Ralph M. Steinman** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2011. For his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.
6. **John B. Gurdon** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2012. For the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.
7. **Edvard I. Moser** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2014. For their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.
8. **Yoshinori Ohsumi** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2016. For his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.
9. **William Kaelin Jr.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2019. For their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.
10. **Randy W. Schekman** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 2013. For their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.
11. **Shinya Yamanaka** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2012. For the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.
12. **May-Britt Moser** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2014. For their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.
13. **Satoshi Ōmura** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2015. For their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites.
14. **Tu Youyou** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2015. For her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria.
15. **Michael Rosbash** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2017. For their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.
16. **James P. Allison** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2018. For their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.
17. **John O'Keefe** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 2014. For their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.
18. **William C. Campbell** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2015. For their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites.
19. **Michael W. Young** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2017. For their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.
20. **Tasuku Honjo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2018. For their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.
21. **Peter J. Ratcliffe** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2019. For their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.
22. **James E. Rothman** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 2013. For their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.
23. **Jeffrey C. Hall** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 2017. For their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.
24. **Gregg L. Semenza** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — 2019. For their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.

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