2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine: Date, Time, and Possible Winners

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce the winner(s) of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology on Monday, October 6. The ceremony will begin at 11:30 a.m. Catalan time.

Last year, the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology was awarded to biologists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for discovering the molecule that makes humans genetically sophisticated. The two American researchers identified the function of microRNAs, tiny molecules that play a crucial role in how genes are regulated and contribute to the fundamental principle that governs gene activity in each of our cells. "Their pioneering discovery has revealed an entirely new principle of gene regulation that has proven essential for multicellular organisms, including humans," the assembly stated.

The prize is worth 11 million Swedish kronor (approximately 934,243 euros), following the guidelines that the prize's creator, Alfred Nobel, wrote in 1895, a year before his death. At that time, he set the prize at 31 million Swedish kronor, a figure that has since evolved with the fluctuation of the currency's value. The first Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology was awarded in 1901 to Emil Adolf von Behring for his discovery of a serum against diphtheria. Years later, during World War I, he was nicknamed the "savior of soldiers" for his work in tetanus immunization.