According to the Nobel jury, a US-Japanese team was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for their study on how the immune system is controlled by identifying its “security guards.”
Understanding how the immune system works and why not everyone develops severe autoimmune disorders has been made possible by the discoveries made by Japanese researcher Shimon Sakaguchi and American researchers Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell.
To Swedish station Sveriges Radio, Sakaguchi, a professor at the Immunology Frontier Research Centre in Osaka, said: “It’s an honor for me. To accept the honor in person, I’m excited to travel to Stockholm in December.
However, the two US-based laureates could not be reached by the Nobel committee to personally deliver the news to them.
