It's the start of the Nobel Prize season and today the Nobel Assembly announced they have awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo for "his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution."
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Svante is a Swedish geneticist specializing in the field of evolutionary genetics and has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome. He is the founding director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, since 1997 and is also professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
Pääbo, 67, has spent decades pioneering and perfecting the complex methods of extracting Neanderthal DNA, and successfully sequencing their genome. His decades of research have made it possible for scientists to study the differences between today’s modern humans and their ancient ancestors, giving insights into human physiology and possible future cures for disease.
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