[Nobel Diary Day 3] Nobel Week 2025 Has Begun!

The official Nobel Week events have begun in earnest from today, December 6.

In the morning, Distinguished Honorary Professor Shimon Sakaguchi attended the Nobel Prize Laureate Get Together event held at the Nobel Prize Museum. This is the first official event of Nobel Week, allowing each laureate to meet and socialize together.

It is the tradition for the laureates to donate items related to their research for the museum's collection and sign on the underside of the chair in the museum's Bistro Nobel.

Professor Sakaguchi, with the cooperation of Akane Shimizu, the author of a Japanese comic series Cells at Work!, donated the author’s autographed illustration of regulatory T cells, the fifth volume of the comic (English version), and Learn about Anatomy! Cells at Work Encyclopedia of the Human Body, as well as two rat ornaments. One of the rats is a ceramic figurine made by Professor Sakaguchi's late mother, and the other is the personal property of his wife, Noriko. The decision to donate them was made with the desire that the two would stay together in harmony at the museum, just like Professor Sakaguchi and his wife Noriko have supported each other in their research till today.

Then, Professor Sakaguchi signed his name on the underside of the chair of Bistro Nobel, as the past laureates have done, and engraved his name in history.

After leaving the museum, Professor Sakaguchi was asked by locals for his autograph, which he happily agreed to.

In the afternoon, a press conference was held at the Karolinska Institute where the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine is located.

Professor Sakaguchi stepped up onto the stage with co-recipients Mary E. Brunkow and Frederick J. Ramsdell in front of reporters from around the world.

After the press conference, Professor Sakaguchi went directly to the rehearsal for his Nobel Prize Lecture at which he would deliver a lecture on the following day. (The Nobel laureates are required to give a lecture on a subject related to the prize-winning research.)

Afterwards, he enjoyed dinner with co-recipients at the Prince Eugene's Waldemarsudde.

The “Nobel Diary” will bring you updates on Professor Sakaguchi during, before, and after the Nobel Week. You can read all articles here. Stay tuned for future updates!

You can also read [Nobel Diary Day 2]