(1)
FOR REVEALING THE COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMANS AND INTESTINAL
MICROBIOTA, AND HOW THIS INTERACTION AFFECTS NUTRITION, OBESITY AND OVERALL
HEALTH
Jeffrey I. Gordon
Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor and Director of the
Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School
of Medicine. St. Louis, MO, USA
(2)
FOR ELUCIDATING THE “UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE,” A CELLULAR “QUALITY-
CONTROL” SYSTEM WHOSE WORKINGS HAVE PROVIDED INSIGHTS INTO MANY DISEASES
AND POSSIBLE TREATMENTS
Kazutoshi Mori
Professor, Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto
University, Kyoto, JAPAN
and
Peter Walter
Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Department of
Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of California
San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
(3)
FOR ADVANCES IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF T CELLS AND THEIR FUNCTION IN
AUTOMIMMUNE DISEASE, ALLERGY, INFLAMMATION AND OTHER PROCESSES
Alexander Y. Rudensky
Chairman, Immunology Program; Director, Ludwig Center for Cancer
Immunotherapy; Tri-Institutional Professor at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University and Cornell University; Professor,
Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School; Professor, Weill Graduate School
of Medical Sciences of Cornell University; Investigator, Howard Hughes
Medical Institute, New York, NY, USA
Shimon Sakaguchi
Distinguished Professor, World Premier International Research Center,
Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka, JAPAN
Ethan M. Shevach
Chief, Cellular Immunology Section, National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD, USA