Stem cell team wins 2007 Nobel for medicine

Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for their work on stem cells, prize awarder the Karolinska institute said on Monday. The prestigious 10 million Swedish crown ($1.54 million) prize recognised the international team's work on introducing genetic changes in mice using embryonic stem cells. Capecchi was born in Italy and is a US citizen. Both Evans and Smithies are British-born. Evans is a Briton while Smithies is a U.S. citizen. Medicine is traditionally the first of the Nobels awarded each year. The prizes for achievement in science, literature and peace bearing the name of Alfred Nobel were first awarded in 1901 according to the will of the Swedish dynamite millionaire.

Recent winners of Nobel Prize for Medicine

Here is a list of the 10 most recent winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, awarded in Stockholm on Monday:

2007: Mario Capecchi (US), Oliver Smithies (US), and Martin Evans (Britain)

2006: Andrew Z. Fire (US), Craig C. Mello (US)

2005: Barry J. Marshall (Australia), J. Robin Warren (Australia)

2004: Richard Axel (US), Linda B. Buck (US)

2003: Paul C. Lauterbur (US) and Peter Mansfield (Britain)

2002: Sydney Brenner and John E. Sulston (Britain), H. Robert Horvitz (US)

2001: Leland Hartwell (US), Timothy Hunt and Paul Nurse (Britain)

2000: Arvid Carlsson (Sweden), Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel (US)

1999: Guenter Blobel (US)

1998: Robert Furchgott, Louis Ignarro and Ferid Murad (US)