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Svante Pääbo

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Svante Pääbo

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Swedish geneticist (born 1955)

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Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist born in 1955 who is known for his groundbreaking work in ancient DNA research, including the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome. His discoveries have fundamentally changed our understanding of human evolution and how modern humans are related to extinct human species.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2022

    for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution

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Given name
Erik
Gender
male
Citizenship
Sweden
Place of birth
Stockholm
Languages spoken
English language
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral student
Viviane Slon
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Work location
Leipzig
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date of birth
1955-01-01
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sexual orientation
bisexuality
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interested in
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Encyclopedic overview

Svante Pääbo ( Swedish: [ˈsvânːtɛ̂ ˈpʰɛ̌ːbʊ̂]; born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome. In 1997, he became founding director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Since 1999, he has been an honorary professor at Leipzig University; he currently teaches molecular evolutionary biology at the university. He is also an adjunct professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.

In 2022, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution".

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