Svante Pääbo

Svante Pääbo
ForMemRS
Pääbo in 2016
Born (1955-04-20) 20 April 1955
Stockholm, Sweden
EducationUppsala University (PhD)
Known forPaleogenetics
Spouse
Linda Vigilant
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(m. 2008)​
Children2
Awards
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1992)
  • Max Delbrück Medal (1998)
  • Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2005)[1]
  • Pour le Mérite (2008)
  • Kistler Prize (2009)
  • Great Cross of Merit with star (2009)
  • Gruber Prize in Genetics (2013)
  • Lomonosov Gold Medal (2014)
  • Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2016)[2]
  • Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2016)
  • Keio Medical Science Prize (2016)
  • Princess of Asturias Award (2018)
  • Darwin–Wallace Medal (2019)
  • Japan Prize (2020)
  • Massry Prize (2021)
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2022)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisHow the E19 Protein of Adenoviruses Modulates the Immune System (1986)

Svante Pääbo ForMemRS (Swedish: [ˈsvânːtɛ̂ ˈpʰɛ̌ːbʊ̂];[3] born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist. His works focused on evolutionary genetics. He is one of the founders of paleogenetics. He has worked on the Neanderthal genome.[4] He is also an adjunct professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.[5]

In 1998, he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.[6]

In 2022, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his works about genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.[7][8][9]

Svante Pääbo is bisexual.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Svante PÄÄBO | Jeantet". 1 October 2017. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  2. ↑ "Svante Paabo". London: Royal Society. 2016. Archived from the original on 29 April 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
  3. ↑ Lena Nordlund, Annlouise Martin (Producers) (14 August 2014). Svante Pääbo (MP3) (Radio). Sveriges Radio. Event occurs at 1:15. Archived from the original on 3 October 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  4. ↑ Kolbert, Elizabeth. "Sleeping with the Enemy: What happened between the Neanderthals and us?". The New Yorker. No. 15 & 22 August 2011. pp. 64–75. Archived from the original on 11 July 2022. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  5. ↑ "Svante Pääbo". OIST Groups. 29 April 2020. Archived from the original on 24 October 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  6. ↑ "Svante Pääbo". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
  7. ↑ "Press release: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022". Archived from the original on 3 October 2022. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  8. ↑ Grover, Natalie; Pollard, Niklas; Ahlander, Johan (3 October 2022). "Swedish geneticist wins Nobel medicine prize for decoding ancient DNA". Reuters. Archived from the original on 3 October 2022. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  9. ↑ "Nobel laureate Svante Paabo's ancient DNA discoveries shed light on what makes us human". Onmanorama. 6 October 2022. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  10. ↑ ‘Neanderthal Man’ — Nobel Prize winner Svante Pääbo revolutionized anthropology. Here is a look back at his groundbreaking 2014 memoir
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