STOCKHOLM — Two Americans and a Briton won the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for discovering a molecular switch that regulates how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen levels, opening up new approaches to treating heart failure, anaemia and cancer. “They were extremely happy, and happy to share the prize with each other,” Thomas Perlmann, a member of the Nobel Assembly, told reporters as the prize was announced. pic.twitter.com/LRu3D5f29U — The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2019“Grant proposal deadlines wait for no-one!" Sir Peter Ratcliffe sitting at his desk working on his EU Synergy Grant application, after learning he had been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 2019 Medicine Laureates William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza have identified molecular machinery that regulates the activity of genes in response to varying levels of oxygen.#NobelPrizepic.twitter.com/LiExfH74rh — The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2019

Source: Huffington Post October 07, 2019 10:30 UTC