The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded 109 times to 216 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2018. Here’s a list for the last 10 years.

2017

Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W Young

For discovering molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm

2016

William C Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura

For discovering a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites and Youyou Tu For discovering a novel therapy against malaria

2014

John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I Moser

For discovering cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain

2013

James E Rothman, Randy W Schekman and Thomas C Südhof

For discovering machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells

2012

Sir John B Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka

For discovering that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent

2011

Bruce A Beutler and Jules A Hoffmann

For discovering the activation of innate immunity and Ralph M Steinman For discovering the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity

2010

Robert G Edwards

For discovering the development of in vitro fertilization

2009

Elizabeth H Blackburn, Carol W Greider, and Jack W Szostak

For discovering how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase

2008

Harald Zur Hausen

For discovering that human papillomaviruses cause cervical cancer and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier For discovering human immunodeficiency