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Swedish researcher wins 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine

Image: Duncan.Hull [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

European Research Council grant winner Savte Pääbo celebrated for furthering the understanding of ancient genomes

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a Swedish researcher for his discoveries on ancient genetics.

Savte Pääbo (pictured), a European Research Council (ERC) grantee working in Leipzig, Germany, won the 10 million Swedish krona (€920,000) prize for his work “concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”.

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