Svante Pääbo
Swedish geneticist (born 1955) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Svante Pääbo ForMemRS KmstkNO (Swedish: [ˈsvânːtɛ̂ ˈpʰɛ̌ːbʊ̂];[3] born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics.[4] As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome.[5][6] In 1997, he became founding director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.[7][8][9] Since 1999, he has been an honorary professor at Leipzig University; he currently teaches molecular evolutionary biology at the university.[10][11] He is also an adjunct professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.[12]
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Born | (1955-04-20) 20 April 1955 (age 69) Stockholm, Sweden |
Education | Uppsala University (PhD) |
Known for | Paleogenetics |
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Children | 2 |
Relatives | Sune Bergström (father) |
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Thesis | How the E19 Protein of Adenoviruses Modulates the Immune System (1986) |
In 2022, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution".[13][14][15]