The Nobel Committee was unable to reach a winner of this year’s medical award, which “lives his best” in the battle of hiking “outside the network.”
Farid Ramzel shared a prestigious Monday award with Mary Branko from Seattle, Washington and Sacon Sakajui from Osaka University in Japan for their discoveries related to the performance of the immune system.
But getting rid of digital toxins in a prize holder does not mean that the Nobel Committee was unable to reach and break the news.
Jeffrey Blukeston, the friend of Ramdel and the co -founder of the laboratory, said the researcher deserves credit but he could not reach him either.
“I was trying to get a grip for him myself. I think he might be on the back in the back country in Idaho.”
The Nobel Committee also struck a road barrier trying to reach Branko – both researchers are based on the American West Coast, which lags behind six hours – but in the end he got it.
“I asked them, if they had an opportunity, call me again,” said Thomas Pirman, Secretary -General of the Nobel Committee, at the press conference that announced the winners.
The three won the research prize that determined the “security guards” in the immune system, which is called organizational T cells.
Their work relates to “peripheral immune tolerance” that prevents the immune system from harming the body, and has led to a new field of research and the development of potential medical treatments that are now evaluated in clinical trials.
Sakaguchi, 74, achieved the first discovery of a key in 1995, and discovered an unknown category by immune cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.
Branco, who was born in 1961, is now a senior project manager at the Systems Biology Institute in Seattle, and Rmseld, a 64 -year -old senior consultant at Sonoma Biother Aspoeutics, another major discovery in 2001.
In 2020, the Nobel Committee faced similar difficulties in contacting the winners of the Economy Award. When the Bob Wilson phone rang in Stanford in the middle of the night, he connected him to the committee to contact his wife instead.
When the committee was unable to reach his winning colleague, Paul Melgerum, too, Wilson was forced to go and wake up. Footage of the Milgrom security camera was taken the moment he was told about his victory in Nobel, which he answered, “Yes, I have.”