Svante Pääbo

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Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist renowned as a founder of paleogenomics, best known for sequencing the Neanderthal genome and advancing the study of human evolution.

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  • Svante Pääbo (honorary doctorate, not student) ×1

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instanceOf Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
geneticist
human
paleogeneticist
university teacher
academicDegree PhD in molecular genetics
awardReceived Crafoord Prize in Biosciences
Japan Prize
Leopoldina membership
Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
countryOfCitizenship Sweden
dateOfBirth 1955-04-20
educatedAt Uppsala University
employer Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
familyName Pääbo
fieldOfWork evolutionary biology
genetics
molecular biology
paleogenomics
genre scientific literature
givenName Svante
hasChild daughter
influencedField anthropology
human evolutionary studies
knownFor ancient DNA analysis
founding the field of paleogenomics
research on human evolution
sequencing the Neanderthal genome
work on Denisovan hominins
languagesSpoken English
Swedish
memberOf German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
name Svante Pääbo
NobelPrizeCategory Physiology or Medicine
NobelPrizeMotivation discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution
NobelPrizeYear 2022
notableDiscovery first draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome
identification of Denisovans as a distinct archaic human group
notableWork Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
placeOfBirth Stockholm
positionHeld founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
researchFocus comparative genomics of modern humans and archaic hominins
evolution of human-specific traits
genetic contributions of Neanderthals to modern humans
workLocation Leipzig


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