Three Hypoxia Researchers share the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology has been jointly awarded to three scientists: William G. Kaelin Jr., professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham & Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School; Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, director of clinical research at the Francis Crick Institute in London and director of the Target Discovery Institute at Oxford; and Gregg L. Semenza, professor of genetic medicine at Johns Hopkins – for their work on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.