Announcing the owner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine

AFP / THX / AP / Reuters reported that the Nobel Committee at Sweden's Karolinska Academy on October 7 announced that two Americans, James Rothman and Randy Schekman and Thomas Suedhof of Germany, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine for merit. groundbreaking study of cellular transport mechanisms.

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In a statement, the Nobel Committee stated that three co-owners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine were honored for "discovering the molecular principle that governs the mechanism of proteins and other substances that are transported inside cells ". .

The three scientists all worked at American universities, in which James Rothman, born in 1950, is currently Professor of cell biology at Yale University; Randy Schekman was born in 1948, teaching at the University of California; and Thomas Suedhof, born in 1955, is Professor of cell and molecular biology at Stanford University.

James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas Sudhof.(Source: AFP)

The findings of the three scientists are very significant in understanding the metabolism in and outside the cell. This finding is useful for the treatment of neurological and immune systems

Three winners this year will share the prize of 925,000 euros (8 million Swedish krones), down sharply from the 10 million kron prize in 2001 due to the global crisis.

The announcement of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine kicked off the 112th World Nobel Prize week.

On October 8 also in Stockholm, the Nobel Committee will announce the name of the scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics, October 9 - Nobel Chemistry.

The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on October 11 in the Norwegian capital Oslo.

The Nobel Prize for Literature is traditionally awarded by the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, which will be published on a Thursday of October.

2012 Nobel Medicine belongs to two scientists John B.Gurdon (England) and Shinya Yamanaka (Japan) by discovering the ability to re-program "mature" cells into universal cells.