The following is a list of Clarivate Citation candidates considered likely to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[1] Since 2023, thirteen out of 95 citation laureates starting in 2008 have eventually been awarded a Nobel Prize: Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak (2009), Ralph M. Steinman (posthumously), Bruce Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann (2011), Shinya Yamanaka (2012), James Rothman and Randy Schekman (2013), Yoshinori Ohsumi (2016), James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo (2018), and David Julius (2021).
| Citation Laureates | Nationality | Motivations | Institute | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008[2] | ||||
| Shizuo Akira (born 1953) | "for their research on toll-like receptors and innate immunity." | Osaka University | ||
| 2011 | Bruce Beutler (born 1957) | Scripps Research Institute | ||
| 2011 | Jules A. Hoffmann (born 1941) | French National Centre for Scientific Research | ||
| Victor Ambros (born 1953) | "for their discovery and analysis of the role of microRNAs (miRNAs) in gene regulation." | University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School | ||
| Gary Ruvkun (born 1952) | Harvard Medical School | |||
| Rory Collins (born 1955) | "for their contributions to clinical medicine and epidemiology through the development and application of meta-analysis." | University of Oxford | ||
| Richard Peto (born 1943) | ||||
| 2009[3] | ||||
| 2009 | Elizabeth Blackburn (born 1948) | "for their roles in the discovery of and pioneering research on telomeres and telomerases." | University of California, San Francisco | |
| 2009 | Carol W. Greider (born 1961) | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | ||
| 2009 | Jack W. Szostak (born 1952) | |||
| 2013 | James Rothman (born 1950) | "for their research on cellular membrane trafficking." | Yale University | |
| 2013 | Randy Schekman (born 1948) | |||
| Seiji Ogawa (born 1934) | "for his fundamental discoveries leading to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which has revolutionized basic research in brain science and diagnosis in clinical medicine." | Ogawa Laboratories for Brain Function Research | ||
| 2010[4] | ||||
| Douglas L. Coleman (1931–2014) | "for the discovery of leptin, a hormone regulating appetite and metabolism." | Jackson Laboratory | ||
| Jeffrey M. Friedman (born 1954) | ||||
| Ernest McCulloch (1926–2011) | "for the discovery of stem cells and the development of induced pluripotent stem cells." | Ontario Cancer Institute | ||
| James E. Till (born 1931) | ||||
| 2012 | Shinya Yamanaka (born 1962) | |||
| 2011 | Ralph M. Steinman (1943–2011) | "for the discovery of dendritic cells, key regulators of immune response." | Rockefeller University | |
| 2011[5] | ||||
| Brian Druker (born 1955) | "for their development of imatinib and dasatinib, revolutionary, targeted treatments for chronic myeloid leukemia." | |||
| Charles Sawyers (born 1959) | ||||
| Nicholas Lydon (born 1957) | ||||
| Robert S. Langer (born 1948) | "for their pioneering research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine." | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Joseph P. Vacanti (born 1948) | ||||
| Jacques Miller (born 1931) | "for his discovery of the function of the thymus and the identification of T cells and B cells in mammalian species." | |||
| Robert L. Coffman (born 1948) | "for their discovery of two types of T lymphocytes, TH1 and TH2, and their role in regulating host immune response." | Dynavax Technologies | ||
| Timothy Mosmann (born 1949) | University of Rochester | |||
| 2012[6] | ||||
| Charles David Allis (1951–2023) | "for fundamental discoveries concerning histone modifications and their role in genetic regulation." | Rockefeller University | ||
| Michael Grunstein (born 1946) | University of California, Los Angeles | |||
| Anthony R. Hunter (born 1943) | "for the discovery of tyrosine phosphorylation and contributions to understanding protein kinases and their role in signal transduction." | |||
| Tony Pawson (1952–2013) | "for identification of the phosphotyrosine binding SH2 domain and demonstrating its function in protein-protein interactions." | University of Toronto | ||
| Richard Hynes (born 1944) | "for pioneering discoveries of cell adhesion molecules, Hynes and Ruoslahti for integrins and Takeichi for cadherins." | |||
| Erkki Ruoslahti (born 1940) | University of California, Santa Barbara | |||
| Masatoshi Takeichi (born 1943) | Riken Institute of Physical and Chemical Research | |||
| 2013[7] | ||||
| Adrian Bird (born 1947) | "for their fundamental discoveries concerning DNA methylation and gene expression." | University of Edinburgh | ||
| Howard Cedar (born 1943) | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |||
| Aharon Razin (1935–2019) | ||||
| Daniel J. Klionsky (born 1958) | "for elucidating the molecular mechanisms and physiological function of autophagy." | University of Michigan | ||
| Noboru Mizushima (born 1966) | University of Tokyo | |||
| 2016 | Yoshinori Ohsumi (born 1945) | Tokyo Institute of Technology | ||
| Dennis Slamon (born 1948) | "for his pioneering research identifying the HER-2/neu oncogene, leading to more effective cancer therapy." | University of California, Los Angeles | ||
| 2014[8] | ||||
| James E. Darnell] (born 1930) | "for fundamental discoveries concerning eukaryotic transcription and gene regulation." | Rockefeller University | ||
| Robert G. Roeder (born 1942) | ||||
| Robert Tjian (born 1949) | ||||
| 2021 | David Julius (born 1955) | "for elucidating molecular mechanisms of pain sensation." | University of California, San Francisco | |
| Charles Lee (born 1969) | "for their discovery of large-scale copy number variation and its association with specific diseases." | Jackson Laboratory | ||
| Stephen W. Scherer (born 1964) | University of Toronto | |||
| Michael Wigler (born 1947) | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | |||
| 2015[9] | ||||
| Jeffrey I. Gordon (born 1947) | "for demonstrating the relationship between the human gut microbiome and physiology, metabolism, and nutrition." | Washington University in St. Louis | ||
| Kazutoshi Mori (born 1958) | "for independently identifying the mechanism by which unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum are detected and corrected." | Kyoto University | ||
| Peter Walter (born 1954) | ||||
| Alexander Rudensky (born 1956) | "for their seminal discoveries concerning the nature and function of regulatory T cells and the transcription factor Foxp3." | |||
| Shimon Sakaguchi (born 1951) | Osaka University | |||
| Ethan M. Shevach (born 1943) | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | |||
| 2016[10] | ||||
| 2018 | James P. Allison (born 1948) | "for explaining how CD28 and CTLA-4 are regulators of T cell activation, modulating immune response." | University of Texas | |
| Jeffrey Bluestone (born 1954) | University of California, San Francisco | |||
| Craig B. Thompson (born 1953) | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | |||
| Gordon J. Freeman (born ?) | "for elucidating programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) and its pathway, which has advanced cancer immunotherapy." | Harvard Medical School | ||
| 2018 | Tasuku Honjo (born 1942) | Kyoto University | ||
| Arlene Sharpe (born 1953) | ||||
| Michael N. Hall (born 1953) | "for discoveries of the growth regulator Target of Rapamycin (TOR) and the mechanistic Target of Rapamycin (mTOR)." | University of Basel | ||
| David M. Sabatini (born 1968) | ||||
| Stuart Schreiber (born 1956) | ||||
| 2017[11] | ||||
| Lewis C. Cantley (born 1949) | "for discovery of the signaling pathway phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) and elucidation of its role in tumor growth." | Weill Cornell Medical College | ||
| Karl J. Friston (born 1959) | "for fundamental contributions to the analysis of brain imaging data, specifically through statistical parametric mapping and voxel-based morphometry." | University College London | ||
| Yuan Chang-Moore (born 1959) | "for their discovery of the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, or human herpesvirus 8 (KSHV/HHV8)." | University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute | ||
| Patrick S. Moore (born 1956) | ||||
| 2018[12] | ||||
| Minoru Kanehisa (born 1948) | "for contributions to bioinformatics, specifically for his development of the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes andGenomes (KEGG)." | Kyoto University | ||
| Solomon H. Snyder (born 1938) | "for his identification of receptors for many neurotransmitters and psychotropic agents." | Johns Hopkins University | ||
| Napoleone Ferrara (born 1956) | "for the discovery of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a key regulator of angiogenesis." | University of California, San Diego | ||
| 2019[13] | ||||
| Hans Clevers (born 1957) | "for research on the Wnt signaling pathway and its role in stem cells and cancer." | Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research | ||
| John Kappler (born 1943) | "for their discovery of T-cell tolerance by clonal elimination in the thymus." | National Jewish Health | ||
| Philippa Marrack-Kappler (born 1945) | ||||
| Ernst Bamberg (born 1940) | "for contributions to the invention and development of optogenetics." | Max Planck Institute of Biophysics | ||
| Karl Deisseroth (born 1971) | ||||
| Gero Miesenböck (born 1965) | Oxford University | |||
| 2020[14] | ||||
| Pamela J. Bjorkman (born 1956) | "for determining the structure and function of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins, a landmark discovery in molecular immunology that has contributed to drug and vaccine development." | California Institute of Technology | ||
| Jack L. Strominger (born 1925) | Harvard University | |||
| Yusuke Nakamura (born 1952) | "for pioneering research developing and applying genetic polymorphic markers and for contributions to genome-wide association studies, both heralding personalized approaches to cancer treatment." | |||
| Huda Zoghbi (born 1954) | "for discoveries on the pathogenesis of neurological disorders including the genetic origins of Rett syndrome." | |||
| 2021[15] | ||||
| Jean-Pierre Changeux (born 1936) | "for contributions to our understanding of neuroreceptors and especially the identification of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and its allosteric properties." | |||
| Toshio Hirano (born 1947) | "for discovery of interleukin-6, description of its physiological and pathological actions, that has contributed to drug development." | |||
| Tadamitsu Kishimoto (born 1939) | Osaka University | |||
| Karl Johnson (born 1929) | "for identification and isolation of the Hantaan virus (hantavirus), agent of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome." | University of New Mexico | ||
| Ho Wang Lee (1928–2022) |