Narcolepsy, cancer tipped as Medicine Prize opens Nobel week

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 02, 2023 11:14 am

Stockholm: Narcolepsy, cancer or mRNA vaccine research could win the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday when a week of announcements kick off, but experts see no clear frontrunner for the Peace Prize.

The awards, first handed out in 1901, were created by Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel in his 1895 will to celebrate those who have 'conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.'

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