""Their discoveries have been decisive for our understanding of how the immune system functions and why we do not all develop serious autoimmune diseases," said Olle Kampe, chair of the Nobel Committee, in a statement."
""My phone rang, and I saw a number from Sweden and thought, well that's just spam of some sort, so I disabled the phone and went back to sleep," Brunkow tells the Nobel committee."
""It takes a bunch of different brains, all working on it together, for sure," she tells the committee."
Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow, and Shimon Sakaguchi share the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries in peripheral immune tolerance. Their work clarifies how the body avoids attacking its own healthy cells, preventing cancers and autoimmune diseases. Sakaguchi published earlier research in 1995 identifying a specific population of T cells linked to immune regulation. The three laureates will split $1.1 million in prize money. Ramsdell co-founded Sonoma Biotherapeutics in 2019 and remains an advisor. The Nobel committee initially reached Sakaguchi by phone and later contacted Brunkow, who initially ignored a Swedish call thinking it was spam.
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