The following is a list of Clarivate Citation candidates considered likely to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. [1] Since 2023, fifteen out of 95 citation laureates starting in 2008 have eventually been awarded a Nobel Prize: Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak (2009), Ralph M. Steinman (posthumously), Bruce Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann (2011), Shinya Yamanaka (2012), James Rothman and Randy Schekman (2013), Yoshinori Ohsumi (2016), James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo (2018), David Julius (2021), Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun (2024).
Citation Laureates | Nationality | Motivations | Institute | |
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2008 [2] | ||||
Shizuo Akira (born 1953) | Japan | "for their research on toll-like receptors and innate immunity." | Osaka University | |
2011 | Bruce Beutler (born 1957) | United States | Scripps Research Institute | |
2011 | Jules A. Hoffmann (born 1941) | France | French National Centre for Scientific Research | |
2024 | Victor Ambros (born 1953) | United States | "for their discovery and analysis of the role of microRNAs (miRNAs) in gene regulation." | University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School |
2024 | Gary Ruvkun (born 1952) | United States | Harvard Medical School | |
Rory Collins (born 1955) | United Kingdom | "for their contributions to clinical medicine and epidemiology through the development and application of meta-analysis." | University of Oxford | |
Richard Peto (born 1943) | United Kingdom | |||
2009 [3] | ||||
2009 | Elizabeth Blackburn (born 1948) | Australia United States | "for their roles in the discovery of and pioneering research on telomeres and telomerases." | University of California, San Francisco |
2009 | Carol W. Greider (born 1961) | United States | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | |
2009 | Jack W. Szostak (born 1952) | Canada United States | ||
2013 | James Rothman (born 1950) | United States | "for their research on cellular membrane trafficking." | Yale University |
2013 | Randy Schekman (born 1948) | United States | ||
Seiji Ogawa (born 1934) | Japan | "for his fundamental discoveries leading to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which has revolutionized basic research in brain science and diagnosis in clinical medicine." | Ogawa Laboratories for Brain Function Research | |
2010 [4] | ||||
Douglas L. Coleman (1931–2014) | United States | "for the discovery of leptin, a hormone regulating appetite and metabolism." | Jackson Laboratory | |
Jeffrey M. Friedman (born 1954) | United States | |||
Ernest McCulloch (1926–2011) | Canada | "for the discovery of stem cells and the development of induced pluripotent stem cells." | Ontario Cancer Institute | |
James E. Till (born 1931) | Canada | |||
2012 | Shinya Yamanaka (born 1962) | Japan | ||
2011 | Ralph M. Steinman (1943–2011) | Canada | "for the discovery of dendritic cells, key regulators of immune response." | Rockefeller University |
2011 [5] | ||||
Brian Druker (born 1955) | United States | "for their development of imatinib and dasatinib, revolutionary, targeted treatments for chronic myeloid leukemia." | ||
Charles Sawyers (born 1959) | United States | |||
Nicholas Lydon (born 1957) | United Kingdom |
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Robert S. Langer (born 1948) | United States | "for their pioneering research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine." | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
Joseph P. Vacanti (born 1948) | United States | |||
Jacques Miller (born 1931) | France Australia | "for his discovery of the function of the thymus and the identification of T cells and B cells in mammalian species." | ||
Robert L. Coffman (born 1948) | United States | "for their discovery of two types of T lymphocytes, TH1 and TH2, and their role in regulating host immune response." | Dynavax Technologies | |
Timothy Mosmann (born 1949) | United States | University of Rochester | ||
2012 [6] | ||||
Charles David Allis (1951–2023) | United States | "for fundamental discoveries concerning histone modifications and their role in genetic regulation." | Rockefeller University | |
Michael Grunstein (born 1946) | United States | University of California, Los Angeles | ||
Anthony R. Hunter (born 1943) | United Kingdom United States | "for the discovery of tyrosine phosphorylation and contributions to understanding protein kinases and their role in signal transduction." | ||
Tony Pawson (1952–2013) | Canada | "for identification of the phosphotyrosine binding SH2 domain and demonstrating its function in protein-protein interactions." | University of Toronto | |
Richard Hynes (born 1944) | United Kingdom | "for pioneering discoveries of cell adhesion molecules, Hynes and Ruoslahti for integrins and Takeichi for cadherins." | ||
Erkki Ruoslahti (born 1940) | Finland | University of California, Santa Barbara | ||
Masatoshi Takeichi (born 1943) | Japan | Riken Institute of Physical and Chemical Research | ||
2013 [7] | ||||
Adrian Bird (born 1947) | United Kingdom | "for their fundamental discoveries concerning DNA methylation and gene expression." | University of Edinburgh | |
Howard Cedar (born 1943) | Israel United States | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | ||
Aharon Razin (1935–2019) | Israel | |||
Daniel J. Klionsky (born 1958) | United States | "for elucidating the molecular mechanisms and physiological function of autophagy." | University of Michigan | |
Noboru Mizushima (born 1966) | Japan | University of Tokyo | ||
2016 | Yoshinori Ohsumi (born 1945) | Japan | Tokyo Institute of Technology | |
Dennis Slamon (born 1948) | United States | "for his pioneering research identifying the HER-2/neu oncogene, leading to more effective cancer therapy." | University of California, Los Angeles | |
2014 [8] | ||||
James E. Darnell (born 1930) | United States | "for fundamental discoveries concerning eukaryotic transcription and gene regulation." | Rockefeller University | |
Robert G. Roeder (born 1942) | United States | |||
Robert Tjian (born 1949) | Hong Kong United States | |||
2021 | David Julius (born 1955) | United States | "for elucidating molecular mechanisms of pain sensation." | University of California, San Francisco |
Charles Lee (born 1969) | Canada | "for their discovery of large-scale copy number variation and its association with specific diseases." | Jackson Laboratory | |
Stephen W. Scherer (born 1964) | Canada | University of Toronto | ||
Michael Wigler (born 1947) | United States | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | ||
2015 [9] | ||||
Jeffrey I. Gordon (born 1947) | United States | "for demonstrating the relationship between the human gut microbiome and physiology, metabolism, and nutrition." | Washington University in St. Louis | |
Kazutoshi Mori (born 1958) | Japan | "for independently identifying the mechanism by which unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum are detected and corrected." | Kyoto University | |
Peter Walter (born 1954) | Germany United States | |||
Alexander Rudensky (born 1956) | United States | "for their seminal discoveries concerning the nature and function of regulatory T cells and the transcription factor Foxp3." | ||
Shimon Sakaguchi (born 1951) | Japan | Osaka University | ||
Ethan M. Shevach (born 1943) | United States | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | ||
2016 [10] | ||||
2018 | James P. Allison (born 1948) | United States | "for explaining how CD28 and CTLA-4 are regulators of T cell activation, modulating immune response." | University of Texas |
Jeffrey Bluestone (born 1954) | United States | University of California, San Francisco | ||
Craig B. Thompson (born 1953) | United States | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | ||
Gordon J. Freeman (born ?) | United States | "for elucidating programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) and its pathway, which has advanced cancer immunotherapy." | Harvard Medical School | |
2018 | Tasuku Honjo (born 1942) | Japan | Kyoto University | |
Arlene Sharpe (born 1953) | United States | |||
Michael N. Hall (born 1953) | United States Switzerland | "for discoveries of the growth regulator Target of Rapamycin (TOR) and the mechanistic Target of Rapamycin (mTOR)." | University of Basel | |
David M. Sabatini (born 1968) | United States | |||
Stuart Schreiber (born 1956) | United States | |||
2017 [11] | ||||
Lewis C. Cantley (born 1949) | United States | "for discovery of the signaling pathway phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) and elucidation of its role in tumor growth." | Weill Cornell Medical College | |
Karl J. Friston (born 1959) | United Kingdom | "for fundamental contributions to the analysis of brain imaging data, specifically through statistical parametric mapping and voxel-based morphometry." | University College London | |
Yuan Chang-Moore (born 1959) | Taiwan United States | "for their discovery of the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, or human herpesvirus 8 (KSHV/HHV8)." | University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute | |
Patrick S. Moore (born 1956) | United States | |||
2018 [12] | ||||
Minoru Kanehisa (born 1948) | Japan | "for contributions to bioinformatics, specifically for his development of the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes andGenomes (KEGG)." | Kyoto University | |
Solomon H. Snyder (born 1938) | United States | "for his identification of receptors for many neurotransmitters and psychotropic agents." | Johns Hopkins University | |
Napoleone Ferrara (born 1956) | Italy United States | "for the discovery of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a key regulator of angiogenesis." | University of California, San Diego | |
2019 [13] | ||||
Hans Clevers (born 1957) | Netherlands | "for research on the Wnt signaling pathway and its role in stem cells and cancer." | Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research | |
John Kappler (born 1943) | United States | "for their discovery of T-cell tolerance by clonal elimination in the thymus." | National Jewish Health | |
Philippa Marrack-Kappler (born 1945) | United Kingdom | |||
Ernst Bamberg (born 1940) | Germany | "for contributions to the invention and development of optogenetics." | Max Planck Institute of Biophysics | |
Karl Deisseroth (born 1971) | United States | |||
Gero Miesenböck (born 1965) | Austria | Oxford University | ||
2020 [14] | ||||
Pamela J. Bjorkman (born 1956) | United States | "for determining the structure and function of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins, a landmark discovery in molecular immunology that has contributed to drug and vaccine development." | California Institute of Technology | |
Jack L. Strominger (born 1925) | United States | Harvard University | ||
Yusuke Nakamura (born 1952) | Japan | "for pioneering research developing and applying genetic polymorphic markers and for contributions to genome-wide association studies, both heralding personalized approaches to cancer treatment." | ||
Huda Zoghbi (born 1954) | Lebanon United States | "for discoveries on the pathogenesis of neurological disorders including the genetic origins of Rett syndrome." | ||
2021 [15] | ||||
Jean-Pierre Changeux (born 1936) | France | "for contributions to our understanding of neuroreceptors and especially the identification of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and its allosteric properties." | ||
Toshio Hirano (born 1947) | Japan | "for discovery of interleukin-6, description of its physiological and pathological actions, that has contributed to drug development." | ||
Tadamitsu Kishimoto (born 1939) | Japan | Osaka University | ||
Karl Johnson (born 1929) | United States | "for identification and isolation of the Hantaan virus (hantavirus), agent of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome." | University of New Mexico | |
Ho Wang Lee (1928–2022) | South Korea | |||
2022 [16] | ||||
Masato Hasegawa (born 1961) | Japan | "for the identification of TDP-43, a pathological signature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), and for other contributions to the study of neurodegenerative diseases." | Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science | |
Virginia Man-Yee Lee (born 1945) | China United States | University of Pennsylvania | ||
Mary-Claire King (born 1946) | United States | "for demonstrating inherited susceptibility for breast and ovarian cancer and discovering the role played by mutations of the BRCA1 gene." | University of Washington | |
Stuart Orkin (born 1946) | United States | "for foundational research on the genetic basis of blood diseases and for advancing gene therapy for sickle cell anemia and beta-thalassemia." | ||
2023 [17] | ||||
Carl H. June (born 1953) | United States | "for breakthrough research advancing chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for the treatment of cancer." | University of Pennsylvania | |
Steven A. Rosenberg (born 1940) | United States | National Cancer Institute | ||
Michel Sadelain (born 1960) | United States | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | ||
Rob Knight (born 1976) | New Zealand | "for computational and experimental research revealing the complex microbial ecosystems of the human body." | University of California San Diego | |
Emmanuel Mignot (born 1959) | France | "for genetic and physiological studies of the sleep/wake cycle and the discovery of hypocretin/orexin as important regulators of sleep involved in the cause of narcolepsy." | Stanford University | |
Clifford B. Saper (born 1952) | United States | Harvard Medical School | ||
Masashi Yanagisawa (born 1960) | Japan United States | University of Tsukuba | ||
2024 [18] | ||||
Helen Hobbs (born 1952) | United States | "for research on the genetics of lipid metabolism, which has led to new drugs to treat cardiovascular diseases." | Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | |
Jonathan C. Cohen (born ?) | United States | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | ||
Ann Graybiel (born 1942) | United States | "for physiological studies of the basal ganglia, central to motor control and behavior including learning." | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
Okihide Hikosaka (born ?) | Japan | National Institutes of Health | ||
Wolfram Schultz (born ?) | Germany | University of Cambridge | ||
Davor Solter (born 1941) | Yugoslavia | "for the discovery of genomic imprinting, advancing our understanding of epigenetics and mammalian development." | Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics | |
Azim Surani (born 1945) | Kenya United Kingdom | University of Cambridge |
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