Coverage dated October 5, 2025

Nobel Prize Awarded For Basic Research Into Immune Tolerance

Headline from Forbes

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was started by three researchers for their contributions to our understanding of immune tolerance.

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  1. Forbes

    Nobel Prize Awarded For Basic Research Into Immune Tolerance (opens Forbes)

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    The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was started by three researchers for their contributions to our understanding of immune tolerance.

  2. Al Jazeera

    Nobel Prize for medicine awarded to immune system researchers (opens Al Jazeera)

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    The international team discovered how the immune system is kept in check to prevent it attacking the body.

  3. NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

    Two U.S. scientists among trio awarded Nobel Prize in medicine (opens NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

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    Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.

  4. WDIO Duluth

    The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for work on the human immune system (opens WDIO Duluth)

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    Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work on peripheral immune tolerance. Their discoveries have advanced treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases and may improve transplant success.

  5. Live Science

    Nobel Prize in medicine goes to trio for their work on immune tolerance (opens Live Science)

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    The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for work on how immune systems are prevented from attacking our own bodies.

  6. KTVZ Bend

    Nobel Prize in medicine goes to trio of scientists for discovering how the immune system is kept in check (opens KTVZ Bend)

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    By Christian Edwards, Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our bodies. Mary E.

  7. ABC 7 San Francisco

    SF researcher among 3 scientists awarded Nobel Prize in medicine for work on the human immune system (opens ABC 7 San Francisco)

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    ABC 7 San Francisco's feed description

    Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.

  8. The Conversation US

    Nobel prize awarded for discovery of immune system’s ‘security guards’ (opens The Conversation US)

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    The discovery of cells that prevent the immune system from hurting the body is paving the way for new treatments for autoimmune diseases and cancer.

  9. Science News

    Finding immune cells that stop a body from attacking itself wins medicine Nobel (opens Science News)

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    Shimon Sakaguchi discovered T-reg immune cells. Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell identified the cells’ role in autoimmune disease.

  10. Scientific American

    This Year’s Medicine Nobel Goes to Discovery of Why the Body Doesn’t Attack Itself (opens Scientific American)

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    Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel prize for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a process that is key to organ transplants and treatment of autoimmune diseases

  11. New York Post

    Three scientists — 2 Americans, 1 Japanese — take home Nobel Prize in medicine for work on human immune system (opens New York Post)

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    Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.

  12. KOB 4

    The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for key immune system discoveries (opens KOB 4)

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    Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries about how the body ensures immune cells attack intruders but not our own tissues. Their findings advanced the search for autoimmune disease treatments, as well as work in cancer and organ tra…

  13. The Guardian

    Nobel prize in medicine awarded to scientists for immune system research (opens The Guardian)

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    Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi worked on how the immune system can be prevented from harming the body

  14. Philadelphia Inquirer

    The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to three scientists for their work on the human immune system (opens Philadelphia Inquirer)

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    Philadelphia Inquirer's feed description

    Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.

  15. Wyoming Tribune Eagle

    Medicine Nobel to trio who identified immune system's 'security guards' (opens Wyoming Tribune Eagle)

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    Wyoming Tribune Eagle's feed description

    A US-Japanese trio on Monday won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for research into how the immune system is kept in check by identifying its "security guards", the Nobel jury

  16. Forbes

    Three Scientists Win Nobel Prize In Medicine For Work On Immune System (opens Forbes)

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    Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries about peripheral immune tolerance.

  17. WMUR

    Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists (opens WMUR)

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    Their discoveries have advanced treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases and may improve transplant success.

  18. Just the News

    US, Japan scientists win Nobel medicine prize for immune system research discoveries (opens Just the News)

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    The winners are Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell from the U.S., and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan

  19. CBS News

    3 scientists win Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries in immunology (opens CBS News)

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    Nobel Prize committee chair says discoveries by the trio of researchers were "decisive for our understanding of how the immune system functions."

  20. BNO News

    Scientists win 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine for immune system discoveries (opens BNO News)

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    Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering how the immune system learns to tolerate the body’s own cells, according to the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet.

  21. Deutsche Welle

    Trio wins Nobel Prize in medicine for immune system research – DW (opens Deutsche Welle)

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    Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi will be awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for their instrumental work in improving our understanding of how the immune system functions.

  22. NPR

    The medicine Nobel Prize goes to 3 scientists for work on peripheral immune tolerance (opens NPR)

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    Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were honored for research into how the body helps the immune system avoid attacking your own tissues instead of foreign invaders.

  23. Nature

    Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’ (opens Nature)

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    Nature's feed description

    Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

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