Trio of researchers win Nobel medicine prize

October 07, 2019 15:13

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to William G Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J Ratcliffe and Gregg L Semenza "for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability."

The researchers have delved into how cells sense oxygen availability and adapt in response to that.

Explaining about the Nobel prize winners' research, the statement read, "The fundamental importance of oxygen has been understood for centuries, but how cells adapt to changes in oxygen levels has long been unknown. This year's Nobel Prize awarded work reveals the molecular mechanisms that underlie how cells adapt to variations in oxygen supply."

Oxygen sensing is central to a large number of diseases. The discoveries made by this year's #NobelPrize laureates have fundamental importance for physiology and have paved the way for promising new strategies to fight anaemia, cancer and many other diseases.

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