Svante Paabo – Nobel Prize in Medicine Winner Full Biography

Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won the Nobel Prize in medicine for 2022. The prize is given to sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal and discovering the previously unknown hominin Denisova.

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“Svante’s work is the definition of pioneering,” says Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

“It has pushed boundary after boundary over the last couple of decades, achieving what was previously considered impossible: not only recovering ancient DNA from fossil bones, but also sequencing entire genomes of our extinct relatives and even retrieving their DNA from the ancient sediments of the caves in which they lived.”

Svante Paabo Full Biography

Paabo is the son of Sune Bergstrom, who won the Nobel prize in medicine in 1982. According to the Nobel Foundation, it’s the eighth time that the son or daughter of a Nobel laureate also won a Nobel Prize.

Name	Svante Paabo
Date of Birth	April 20, 1955
Birth City	Stockholm
Birth Country	Sweden
Father’s Name	Sune Bergstrom
Mother’s name	Linda Vigilant
PhD	University of Uppsala, Sweden
Nobel Prize Year	2022
Institute	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology