The Nobel Prize week is kicking off in Stockholm with the medicine award

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KOSTYA MANENKOV Associated Press, & STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press. (2026, October 5). The Nobel Prize week is kicking off in Stockholm with the medicine award. ABC News (US). https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/nobel-prize-week-kicking-off-stockholm-medicine-award-136995821

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This year's Nobel Prize week begins in Stockholm with the awarding of the medicine prize at the Karolinska Institute on Monday. The prize money for each category is 12 million Swedish kronor, equivalent to about $1.2 million. Following the medicine prize, other categories including physics, chemistry, literature, and peace will be announced throughout the week, with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences concluding the awards on October 12th.

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On October 5, 2026, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, Peter Hegemann of Humboldt University in Berlin, and Georg Nagel of the University of Würzburg. The trio received the prize "for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics," which allows scientists to control individual nerve cells using light. This method is now widely used globally to study brain activity and understand neurological disorders. Each winner will share a prize of 12 million Swedish kronor (about $1.2 million). The award kicked off Nobel Week, with subsequent prizes for physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and economics to be announced from October 6-12.

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The Nobel Prize week is kicking off in Stockholm with the medicine award This year’s Nobel Prizes kick off with the awarding of the medicine prize at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm STOCKHOLM -- asserted

Prizes → kick → Stockholm

This year's Nobel Prizes will kick off on Monday with the awarding of the medicine prize at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. asserted

Prizes → kick → Stockholm

Last year, three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. asserted

system → win → germs

The work by Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi uncovered a key pathway the body uses to keep the immune system in check, called peripheral immune tolerance. asserted

body → uncover → check

Experts called the findings critical to understanding autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. asserted

Experts → call → diabetes

Monday's medicine prize is followed by the physics prize on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. asserted

prize → follow → Thursday

After Friday’s peace prize is awarded, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced on Oct. 12. asserted

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Dazio reported from Berlin. asserted

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