The Japanese researcher, Simon Sakagucci, a professor at the University of Osaka, who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine along with two other researchers, for research on how the immune system is maintained under control by detecting "security guards", said that he can further studies.
At a press conference in Japan, he said he hoped that the award would "serve as an opportunity to further develop this sector ... in a direction where it can be applied to real environments".
Sakagucci explained that further studies of the human immune system, both its strengthening and its suppression, could lead to methods of prevention and treatments for diseases such as cancer and rejection in cases of organ transplantation.
"I believe that even for diseases that are difficult to deal with today, there are solutions, there will inevitably find effective treatments and preventive measures will be discovered," he said.
The team of three researchers, Mary Banco and Fred Ramsdell from the US and Simon Sakagucci from Japan, has received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for a research that is considered decisive for understanding the way the immune system works and the discourse that we do not all develop.
The three will receive a diploma, a gold medal and $ 1.2 million divided into three parts, at an official ceremony in Stockholm on December 10.
The Nobel Prizes Committee was unable to contact the two US -based awardees to announce the news in person.
"If you hear that, call me," Nobel Committee Secretary -General Thomas Perlman joked at a press conference that announced the winners.
The three won the award for the research that identified the "security guards" of the immune system, called T-cell regulatory.
Their work concerns the "regional immune tolerance" that prevents the immune system from harming the body and has led to a new field of research and the development of possible medical remedies now evaluated in clinical trials.
"Hope is to be able to administer treatment or deal with autoimmune diseases, provide more effective treatments for cancer, and prevent serious complications after stem cell transplants," the jury said.
Thomas Perlman, a member of the Nobel Prize in Medicine Committee, told the French News Agency (GPI) that "it is no coincidence that the US has by far the most Nobel -award -winning".
"But now there is a sense of uncertainty about US willingness to maintain their leadership position in research," he said.
In the meantime, Trump has not hidden the fact that he wants to win a Nobel himself - the Nobel Peace Prize. Nobel experts, however, have stated that his "first America" policies and his divisive style give him little chance. "It is completely unthinkable," Evid Stensen, a historian who has conducted a research and has signed a book on the prize, told the GPE.
