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Fred Ramsdell, Immunologist/Wikimedia CommonsFred Rexdel is one of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2025, but he probably does not even know about it, because he is somewhere in the western state Idaho and does not communicate.
Such “digital detox” has led to the fact that the committee could not tell him the news of the award, writes The Guardian.
Jeffrey Blistone, a friend Rexdel and the co -founder of the laboratory, said that the researcher deserves recognition, but he also cannot contact him.
“I am trying to call him. I think he’s somewhere in the mountains of Idaho with a backpack”– said AFP to Blice.
The committee also had difficulty trying to contact another winner – scientist Mary Brunkou. It works on the west coast of the United States, which is behind Stockholm for 9 hours, but eventually called it.
“I asked if there is an opportunity to call me back”, Said the Secretary General of the Nobel Committee Thomas Perlman, announcing the winners.
Rexdel was awarded a prestigious award on October 6 with Mary Brunkou from Seattle (Washington, USA) and Sakaguguchy from Osaka University in Japan. The three scientists were noted for research that revealed the “guards” of the immune system-the so-called regulatory T cells.
Scientists have explored a mechanism called peripheral immune tolerance. It reduces the risk of attacking the immune system on your own body.
The discovery launched a new area of scientific research and the development of potential medical treatments that are currently undergoing clinical trials.
The 74-year-old Sakaguchi made the first key discovery in 1995, finding a previously unknown class of immune cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.
64-year-old Mary Brunkou and Fred Rexdel did their research in 2001. Now Mary is the senior leader of the projects at the Institute of System Biology in Seattle, and Fred works as a senior adviser to Sonoma BioTherapeutics.
In 2020, the Nobel Committee had similar difficulties with the winners of the Prize in Economics. When in the middle of the night in Stanford, he rang the phone of scientist Bob Wilson, he simply rejected the call, so the committee had to call his wife.
When Paul Milgroma failed to call his colleague, Wilson had to leave and wake him up. Milgrom’s surveillance chamber shots recorded the moment when he was informed about the Nobel victory, to which he only answered: “Indeed? Wau”.
Recall that the announcement of this year’s winners of the most prestigious scientific award began on October 6. On the second day, October 7, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced.
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Fred Ramsdell, Immunologist/Wikimedia CommonsFred Rexdel is one of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2025, but he probably does not even know about it, because he is somewhere in the western state Idaho and does not communicate.
Such “digital detox” has led to the fact that the committee could not tell him the news of the award, writes The Guardian.
Jeffrey Blistone, a friend Rexdel and the co -founder of the laboratory, said that the researcher deserves recognition, but he also cannot contact him.
“I am trying to call him. I think he’s somewhere in the mountains of Idaho with a backpack”– said AFP to Blice.
The committee also had difficulty trying to contact another winner – scientist Mary Brunkou. It works on the west coast of the United States, which is behind Stockholm for 9 hours, but eventually called it.
“I asked if there is an opportunity to call me back”, Said the Secretary General of the Nobel Committee Thomas Perlman, announcing the winners.
Rexdel was awarded a prestigious award on October 6 with Mary Brunkou from Seattle (Washington, USA) and Sakaguguchy from Osaka University in Japan. The three scientists were noted for research that revealed the “guards” of the immune system-the so-called regulatory T cells.
Scientists have explored a mechanism called peripheral immune tolerance. It reduces the risk of attacking the immune system on your own body.
The discovery launched a new area of scientific research and the development of potential medical treatments that are currently undergoing clinical trials.
The 74-year-old Sakaguchi made the first key discovery in 1995, finding a previously unknown class of immune cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.
64-year-old Mary Brunkou and Fred Rexdel did their research in 2001. Now Mary is the senior leader of the projects at the Institute of System Biology in Seattle, and Fred works as a senior adviser to Sonoma BioTherapeutics.
In 2020, the Nobel Committee had similar difficulties with the winners of the Prize in Economics. When in the middle of the night in Stanford, he rang the phone of scientist Bob Wilson, he simply rejected the call, so the committee had to call his wife.
When Paul Milgroma failed to call his colleague, Wilson had to leave and wake him up. Milgrom’s surveillance chamber shots recorded the moment when he was informed about the Nobel victory, to which he only answered: “Indeed? Wau”.
Recall that the announcement of this year’s winners of the most prestigious scientific award began on October 6. On the second day, October 7, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced.