The Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize has been handed out since 1901. Awarding the prestigious Nobel Prize has given Karolinska Institutet an invaluable contact network and a unique survey of medical research results the world over.
In 1895 Alfred Nobel entrusted Karolinska Institutet with the responsobility of awarding the annual Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Prize was first awarded in 1901. Initially, the Institute's teaching staff were responsible for the selection. Today the selection is made by a legally constituted assembly, the Karolinska Institutet Nobel Assembly. The Assembly consists of fifty elected members who are professors at the Karolinska Institutet.
2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2009 jointly to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak for the discovery of "how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase".
