India, Oct. 6 -- Scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were on Monday awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance", the award-giving body said.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine, the first in the series of six prizes, were announced by a panel at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

"Their discoveries have laid the foundation for a new field of research and spurred the development of new treatments, for example for cancer and autoimmune diseases," the committee behind the Nobel Prize said in a statement on Monday.

The Nobel prize in medicine has been awarded 115 times to 229 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2024.

Last year, the prize was s...