Overview
- King Carl XVI Gustaf presented medals and diplomas at the Stockholm Concert Hall on December 10 local time, formally conferring the 2025 Nobel Prizes.
- Osaka University’s Shimon Sakaguchi, 74, received the Physiology or Medicine prize for discovering regulatory T cells that control immune responses.
- Kyoto University’s Susumu Kitagawa, 74, received the Chemistry prize for developing metal–organic frameworks, a porous material platform with wide application potential.
- Sakaguchi shares the medicine prize with Mary Blankow and Fred Ramsdell of the United States; Kitagawa shares the chemistry prize with Richard Robson of Australia and Omar Yaghi of the United States.
- The standard 11,000,000-kronor award for each prize will be divided equally among the three laureates, and about 1,300 guests attended the white-tie ceremony with family, university representatives, and collaborators present.