Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo wins Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries on human evolution

Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that provides our understanding of how modern day humans evolved from extinct ancestors.

The award’s panel said, his study also provides key insights into the immune system and human uniqueness compared with their extinct cousins. Paabo’s key achievements include sequencing an entire Neandertha

genome to reveal the link between extinct people and modern humans.

The Sixty-seven year old Paabo performed his prizewinning studies in Germany at the University of Munich and at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Paabo is the son of Sune Bergstrom, who won the Nobel prize in medicine in 1982.