Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid | Nobel prizes
The Nobel Committee was unable to join a winner of this year’s medicine prize, which “lives its best life” on a hiking foray “Off the grid”, said a spokesman for his laboratory based in San Francisco, Sonoma Biotherapeutics.
Fred Ramsdell shared the prestigious Monday prize with Mary Brunkow from Seattle, Washington and Shimon Sakaguchi from Osaka University in Japan for their discoveries related to the functioning of the immune system.
But the digital detox of the winner means that the Nobel Committee has not been able to reach it and announce the news.
Jeffrey Bluestone, a friend of Ramsdell and co-founder of the laboratory, said that the researcher deserves the credit, but he cannot join him either.
“I tried to grasp it myself. I think he can hike in the hinterland in Idaho,” Bluestone told AFP.
The Nobel Committee also struck a roadblock while trying to join Brunkow – the two researchers are based on the American West Coast, which is nine hours late on Stockholm – but finally obtained it.
“I asked them, if they have a chance, remind me,” said Thomas Perlmann, secretary general of the Nobel Committee, at the press conference announcing the winners.
The three won the research price that identified the “security guards” of the immune system, called regulatory T cells.
Their work concerns “peripheral immune tolerance” which prevents the immune system from harming the body and has led to a new field of research and the development of potential medical treatment which is now evaluated in clinical trials.
Sakaguchi, 74, made the first key discovery in 1995, discovering a class of previously unknown immune cells which protects the body from autoimmune diseases.
Brunkow, born in 1961 and now senior project manager at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, and Ramsdell, 64 -year -old senior advisor at Sonoma Biotherapeutics, made the other key discovery in 2001.
In 2020, the Nobel Committee had similar difficulties to contact the winners of the economy price. When Bob Wilson’s phone rang in Stanford in the middle of the night, he disconnected him for the committee to have called his wife instead.
When the committee could not reach his winning colleague, Paul Milgrom either, Wilson had to wake him up. Images of the Milgrom security camera captured the moment when he was informed of his Nobel victory, to which he replied “Yeah I have?” WOW “.
