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28/03/2023

We are thrilled to reveal the 2023 Polar Music Prize Laureates: Chris Blackwell, Angélique Kidjo, and Arvo Pärt.

These extraordinary musicians have enriched our world with their unique voices and sounds. We are honored to recognize their immense contributions to music and culture.

Congratulations Island Records, Angélique Kidjo and Arvo Pärdi Keskus / Arvo Pärt Centre

Read all about the Laureates on www.polarmusicprize.org

03/10/2022

Congratulations, well deserved: Svante Paabo from all of us🇸🇪⭐️

Through his groundbreaking research, this year’s Nobel Prize laureate Svante Pääbo established an entirely new scientific discipline, paleogenomics. His discoveries have established a unique resource, which is utilised extensively by the scientific community to better understand human evolution and migration.

Thanks to Svante Pääbo’s discoveries, we now understand that archaic gene sequences from our extinct relatives influence the physiology of present-day humans. One such example is the Denisovan version of the gene EPAS1, which confers an advantage for survival at high altitude. Other examples are Neanderthal genes that affect our immune response to different types of infections.

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”

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