Therefore, the Nobel Assembly was constituted, consisting of 50 professors at Karolinska Institutet.

In the case of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, that is the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute.

He is also a member of the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institutet, having served as its chairman 2002-2004.

Göran K. Hansson, secretary of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, announced the news.

The Nobel Committee, which is appointed by the Nobel Assembly, is only empowered to recommend laureates, while the final decision rests with the Nobel Assembly.

It was that "proteins secreted out of a cell contain an intrinsic signal that governs them to and across membranes," the Nobel Assembly said in its citation.

The Nobel Assembly gave him the prize anyway, noting that he was alive when nominated.

According to Maria Masucci, a member of the Nobel Assembly, "there was no doubt as to who made the fundamental discoveries."

Gosta Gahrton, a member of the Nobel Assembly, said the clinical application of the discovery was still being explored, but he predicted that 'an enormous field will be opened.

But Maria Masucci, a member of the Nobel Assembly, told Reuters on Monday that "there was no doubt as to who made the fundamental discoveries."