9 October 2019

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019 was awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. 



Dorine Swinkels, theme Renal disorders, works with them. She told us about the Nobel Prize and their research on the Dutch Radio, radio 1.

Read more about their research on the Radboudumc website (in Dutch) or on the website of the Nobel Prize. 

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