Nobel Prize: Fred Ramsdell was on ‘off-the-grid hiking trip’; received news after 20 hours

Scientist Fred Ramsdell learned he had won the Nobel Prize in Medicine while on a digital detox in the remote backcountry of the western United States.Ramsdell, 64, an immunologist, was camping and hiking across the Rocky Mountains with his phone on airplane mode when the Nobel Committee was unable to reach him. The news finally […]

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Trio gets Nobel Prize in Medicine for work on immune system

File photo: Mary Brunkow, Shimon Sakaguchi and Fred Ramsdell STOCKHOLM: US scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan won the 2025 Nobel Prize for medicine Monday for work shedding light on how the immune system spares healthy cells, creating openings for possible new cancer and autoimmune disease treatments.Their work laid the […]

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