{"id":25858,"date":"2026-10-04T21:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T17:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/?p=25858"},"modified":"2026-10-04T21:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T17:34:49","slug":"who-will-receive-the-2026-nobel-prize-in-physiology-or-medicine-5-leading-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/who-will-receive-the-2026-nobel-prize-in-physiology-or-medicine-5-leading-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Will Receive the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine? \u2014 5 Leading Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The time to reveal the winners is approaching. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet will announce the 2026 laureate in Physiology or Medicine tomorrow, October 5, at 13:30 Tbilisi time (11:30 CEST).<\/p>\n<p>Before the official decision is announced, the scientific community is actively discussing the discoveries that have transformed our understanding of human biology and medicine. Here are five innovative areas that are considered among the leading contenders for this year\u2019s Nobel Prize:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>GLP-1 biology (Daniel J. Drucker, Jens Juul Holst, and Svetlana Mojsov):<\/strong> Research into gastrointestinal hormones that revolutionized the treatment of diabetes and obesity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Optical coherence tomography \u2014 OCT (James G. Fujimoto, David Huang, and Eric A. Swanson):<\/strong> The use of light to visualize the internal structures of the eye, which transformed retinal diagnostics and biomedical imaging.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Orexin and sleep regulation (Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa):<\/strong> Deciphering the molecular mechanisms underlying sleep, wakefulness, and narcolepsy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>CAR-T cell therapy (Carl June and other pioneering researchers):<\/strong> Reprogramming immune cells to recognize and destroy cancer cells.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Immune system biology (Timothy A. Springer and other researchers):<\/strong> Discoveries concerning the mechanisms of immune-cell adhesion and signaling, opening up new therapeutic possibilities for managing inflammatory processes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other important contenders also include immune checkpoint inhibitors and RNA-based therapies, which have fundamentally transformed modern medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, these are predictions, not an official shortlist from the Nobel Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time to reveal the winners is approaching. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet will announce the 2026 laureate in Physiology or Medicine tomorrow, October 5, at 13:30 Tbilisi time (11:30 CEST). Before the official decision is announced, the scientific community is actively discussing the discoveries that have transformed our understanding of human biology and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1594],"tags":[7259],"class_list":["post-25858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-nobel-prize"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25862,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25858\/revisions\/25862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}