Nobel Prize in Medicine honours work on peripheral immune tolerance

A screen showing the photos of Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, at the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden (Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency via AP)

Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.

Ms Brunkow, 64, is a senior programme manager at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle.