# List of Clarivate Citation laureates in Physiology or Medicine

The following is a list of Clarivate Citation candidates considered likely to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Since 2023, fifteen out of 95 citation laureates starting in 2008 have eventually been awarded a Nobel Prize: Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak (2009), Ralph M. Steinman (posthumously), Bruce Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann (2011), Shinya Yamanaka (2012), James Rothman and Randy Schekman (2013), Yoshinori Ohsumi (2016), James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo (2018), David Julius (2021), Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun (2024).

## Laureates

* 2008
* 2009
* 2010
* 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2022
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024
| | Citation Laureates | Nationality | Motivations | Institute |
| 2008 |||||
| | Shizuo Akira (born 1953) | Japan | "for their research on toll-like receptors and innate immunity." | Osaka University |
| | Bruce Beutler (born 1957) | United States | "for their research on toll-like receptors and innate immunity." | Scripps Research Institute |
| | Jules A. Hoffmann (born 1941) | France | "for their research on toll-like receptors and innate immunity." | French National Centre for Scientific Research |
| | Victor Ambros (born 1953) | United States | "for their discovery and analysis of the role of microRNAs (miRNAs) in gene regulation." | University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School |
| | Gary Ruvkun (born 1952) | United States | "for their discovery and analysis of the role of microRNAs (miRNAs) in gene regulation." | Harvard Medical School |
| | Rory Collins (born 1955) | United Kingdom | "for their contributions to clinical medicine and epidemiology through the development and application of meta-analysis." | University of Oxford |
| | Richard Peto (born 1943) | United Kingdom | "for their contributions to clinical medicine and epidemiology through the development and application of meta-analysis." | University of Oxford |
| 2009 |||||
| | Elizabeth Blackburn (born 1948) | Australia United States | "for their roles in the discovery of and pioneering research on telomeres and telomerases." | University of California, San Francisco |
| | Carol W. Greider (born 1961) | United States | "for their roles in the discovery of and pioneering research on telomeres and telomerases." | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| | Jack W. Szostak (born 1952) | Canada United States | "for their roles in the discovery of and pioneering research on telomeres and telomerases." | Harvard Medical SchoolHoward Hughes Medical Institute |
| | James Rothman (born 1950) | United States | "for their research on cellular membrane trafficking." | Yale University |
| | Randy Schekman (born 1948) | United States | "for their research on cellular membrane trafficking." | University of California, BerkeleyHoward Hughes Medical Institute |
| | Seiji Ogawa (born 1934) | Japan | "for his fundamental discoveries leading to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which has revolutionized basic research in brain science and diagnosis in clinical medicine." | Ogawa Laboratories for Brain Function Research |
| 2010 |||||
| | Douglas L. Coleman (1931–2014) | United States | "for the discovery of leptin, a hormone regulating appetite and metabolism." | Jackson Laboratory |
| | Jeffrey M. Friedman (born 1954) | United States | "for the discovery of leptin, a hormone regulating appetite and metabolism." | Rockefeller UniversityHoward Hughes Medical Institute |
| | Ernest McCulloch (1926–2011) | Canada | "for the discovery of stem cells and the development of induced pluripotent stem cells." | Ontario Cancer Institute |
| | James E. Till (born 1931) | Canada | "for the discovery of stem cells and the development of induced pluripotent stem cells." | Ontario Cancer Institute |
| | Shinya Yamanaka (born 1962) | Japan | "for the discovery of stem cells and the development of induced pluripotent stem cells." | Kyoto UniversityUniversity of California, San Francisco |
| | Ralph M. Steinman (1943–2011) | Canada | "for the discovery of dendritic cells, key regulators of immune response." | Rockefeller University |
| 2011 |||||
| | Brian Druker (born 1955) | United States | "for their development of imatinib and dasatinib, revolutionary, targeted treatments for chronic myeloid leukemia." | Howard Hughes Medical InstituteOregon Health & Science University |
| | Charles Sawyers (born 1959) | United States | "for their development of imatinib and dasatinib, revolutionary, targeted treatments for chronic myeloid leukemia." | Howard Hughes Medical InstituteMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| | Nicholas Lydon (born 1957) | United Kingdom | "for their development of imatinib and dasatinib, revolutionary, targeted treatments for chronic myeloid leukemia." | AnaptysBioBlueprint Medicines |
| | Robert S. Langer (born 1948) | United States | "for their pioneering research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine." | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| | Joseph P. Vacanti (born 1948) | United States | "for their pioneering research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine." | Harvard Medical SchoolMassachusetts General Hospital |
| | Jacques Miller (born 1931) | France Australia | "for his discovery of the function of the thymus and the identification of T cells and B cells in mammalian species." | University of MelbourneWalter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research |
| | Robert L. Coffman (born 1948) | United States | "for their discovery of two types of T lymphocytes, TH1 and TH2, and their role in regulating host immune response." | Dynavax Technologies |
| | Timothy Mosmann (born 1949) | United States | "for their discovery of two types of T lymphocytes, TH1 and TH2, and their role in regulating host immune response." | University of Rochester |
| 2012 |||||
| | Charles David Allis (1951–2023) | United States | "for fundamental discoveries concerning histone modifications and their role in genetic regulation." | Rockefeller University |
| | Michael Grunstein (born 1946) | United States | "for fundamental discoveries concerning histone modifications and their role in genetic regulation." | University of California, Los Angeles |
| | Anthony R. Hunter (born 1943) | United Kingdom United States | "for the discovery of tyrosine phosphorylation and contributions to understanding protein kinases and their role in signal transduction." | Salk Institute for Biological StudiesUniversity of California, San Diego |
| | Tony Pawson (1952–2013) | Canada | "for identification of the phosphotyrosine binding SH2 domain and demonstrating its function in protein-protein interactions." | University of Toronto |
| | Richard Hynes (born 1944) | United Kingdom | "for pioneering discoveries of cell adhesion molecules, Hynes and Ruoslahti for integrins and Takeichi for cadherins." | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHoward Hughes Medical Institute |
| | Erkki Ruoslahti (born 1940) | Finland | "for pioneering discoveries of cell adhesion molecules, Hynes and Ruoslahti for integrins and Takeichi for cadherins." | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| | Masatoshi Takeichi (born 1943) | Japan | "for pioneering discoveries of cell adhesion molecules, Hynes and Ruoslahti for integrins and Takeichi for cadherins." | Riken Institute of Physical and Chemical Research |
| 2013 |||||
| | Adrian Bird (born 1947) | United Kingdom | "for their fundamental discoveries concerning DNA methylation and gene expression." | University of Edinburgh |
| | Howard Cedar (born 1943) | Israel United States | "for their fundamental discoveries concerning DNA methylation and gene expression." | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| | Aharon Razin (1935–2019) | Israel | "for their fundamental discoveries concerning DNA methylation and gene expression." | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| | Daniel J. Klionsky (born 1958) | United States | "for elucidating the molecular mechanisms and physiological function of autophagy." | University of Michigan |
| | Noboru Mizushima (born 1966) | Japan | "for elucidating the molecular mechanisms and physiological function of autophagy." | University of Tokyo |
| | Yoshinori Ohsumi (born 1945) | Japan | "for elucidating the molecular mechanisms and physiological function of autophagy." | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| | Dennis Slamon (born 1948) | United States | "for his pioneering research identifying the HER-2/neu oncogene, leading to more effective cancer therapy." | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2014 |||||
| | James E. Darnell (born 1930) | United States | "for fundamental discoveries concerning eukaryotic transcription and gene regulation." | Rockefeller University |
| | Robert G. Roeder (born 1942) | United States | "for fundamental discoveries concerning eukaryotic transcription and gene regulation." | Rockefeller University |
| | Robert Tjian (born 1949) | Hong Kong United States | "for fundamental discoveries concerning eukaryotic transcription and gene regulation." | University of California, BerkeleyHoward Hughes Medical Institute |
| | David Julius (born 1955) | United States | "for elucidating molecular mechanisms of pain sensation." | University of California, San Francisco |
| | Charles Lee (born 1969) | Canada | "for their discovery of large-scale copy number variation and its association with specific diseases." | Jackson Laboratory |
| | Stephen W. Scherer (born 1964) | Canada | "for their discovery of large-scale copy number variation and its association with specific diseases." | University of Toronto |
| | Michael Wigler (born 1947) | United States | "for their discovery of large-scale copy number variation and its association with specific diseases." | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| 2015 |||||
| | Jeffrey I. Gordon (born 1947) | United States | "for demonstrating the relationship between the human gut microbiome and physiology, metabolism, and nutrition." | Washington University in St. Louis |
| | Kazutoshi Mori (born 1958) | Japan | "for independently identifying the mechanism by which unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum are detected and corrected." | Kyoto University |
| | Peter Walter (born 1954) | Germany United States | "for independently identifying the mechanism by which unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum are detected and corrected." | University of California, Los AngelesHoward Hughes Medical Institute |
| | Alexander Rudensky (born 1956) | United States | "for their seminal discoveries concerning the nature and function of regulatory T cells and the transcription factor Foxp3." | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterHoward Hughes Medical Institute |
| | Shimon Sakaguchi (born 1951) | Japan | "for their seminal discoveries concerning the nature and function of regulatory T cells and the transcription factor Foxp3." | Osaka University |
| | Ethan M. Shevach (born 1943) | United States | "for their seminal discoveries concerning the nature and function of regulatory T cells and the transcription factor Foxp3." | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |
| 2016 |||||
| | James P. Allison (born 1948) | United States | "for explaining how CD28 and CTLA-4 are regulators of T cell activation, modulating immune response." | University of Texas |
| | Jeffrey Bluestone (born 1954) | United States | "for explaining how CD28 and CTLA-4 are regulators of T cell activation, modulating immune response." | University of California, San Francisco |
| | Craig B. Thompson (born 1953) | United States | "for explaining how CD28 and CTLA-4 are regulators of T cell activation, modulating immune response." | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| | Gordon J. Freeman (born ?) | United States | "for elucidating programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) and its pathway, which has advanced cancer immunotherapy." | Harvard Medical School |
| | Tasuku Honjo (born 1942) | Japan | "for elucidating programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) and its pathway, which has advanced cancer immunotherapy." | Kyoto University |
| | Arlene Sharpe (born 1953) | United States | "for elucidating programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) and its pathway, which has advanced cancer immunotherapy." | Harvard Medical SchoolBrigham and Women's Hospital |
| | Michael N. Hall (born 1953) | United States Switzerland | "for discoveries of the growth regulator Target of Rapamycin (TOR) and the mechanistic Target of Rapamycin (mTOR)." | University of Basel |
| | David M. Sabatini (born 1968) | United States | "for discoveries of the growth regulator Target of Rapamycin (TOR) and the mechanistic Target of Rapamycin (mTOR)." | Broad InstituteMassachusetts Institute of Technology |
| | Stuart Schreiber (born 1956) | United States | "for discoveries of the growth regulator Target of Rapamycin (TOR) and the mechanistic Target of Rapamycin (mTOR)." | Harvard UniversityHoward Hughes Medical Institute |
| 2017 |||||
| | Lewis C. Cantley (born 1949) | United States | "for discovery of the signaling pathway phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) and elucidation of its role in tumor growth." | Weill Cornell Medical College |
| | Karl J. Friston (born 1959) | United Kingdom | "for fundamental contributions to the analysis of brain imaging data, specifically through statistical parametric mapping and voxel-based morphometry." | University College London |
| | Yuan Chang-Moore (born 1959) | Taiwan United States | "for their discovery of the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, or human herpesvirus 8 (KSHV/HHV8)." | University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute |
| | Patrick S. Moore (born 1956) | United States | "for their discovery of the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, or human herpesvirus 8 (KSHV/HHV8)." | University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute |
| 2018 |||||
| | Minoru Kanehisa (born 1948) | Japan | "for contributions to bioinformatics, specifically for his development of the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes andGenomes (KEGG)." | Kyoto University |
| | Solomon H. Snyder (born 1938) | United States | "for his identification of receptors for many neurotransmitters and psychotropic agents." | Johns Hopkins University |
| | Napoleone Ferrara (born 1956) | Italy United States | "for the discovery of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a key regulator of angiogenesis." | University of California, San Diego |
| 2019 |||||
| | Hans Clevers (born 1957) | Netherlands | "for research on the Wnt signaling pathway and its role in stem cells and cancer." | Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research |
| | John Kappler (born 1943) | United States | "for their discovery of T-cell tolerance by clonal elimination in the thymus." | National Jewish Health |
| | Philippa Marrack-Kappler (born 1945) | United Kingdom | "for their discovery of T-cell tolerance by clonal elimination in the thymus." | National Jewish Health |
| | Ernst Bamberg (born 1940) | Germany | "for contributions to the invention and development of optogenetics." | Max Planck Institute of Biophysics |
| | Karl Deisseroth (born 1971) | United States | "for contributions to the invention and development of optogenetics." | Stanford UniversityHoward Hughes Medical Institute |
| | Gero Miesenböck (born 1965) | Austria | "for contributions to the invention and development of optogenetics." | Oxford University |
| 2020 |||||
| | Pamela J. Bjorkman (born 1956) | United States | "for determining the structure and function of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins, a landmark discovery in molecular immunology that has contributed to drug and vaccine development." | California Institute of Technology |
| | Jack L. Strominger (born 1925) | United States | "for determining the structure and function of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins, a landmark discovery in molecular immunology that has contributed to drug and vaccine development." | Harvard University |
| | Yusuke Nakamura (born 1952) | Japan | "for pioneering research developing and applying genetic polymorphic markers and for contributions to genome-wide association studies, both heralding personalized approaches to cancer treatment." | Japanese Foundation for Cancer ResearchUniversity of Tokyo |
| | Huda Zoghbi (born 1954) | Lebanon United States | "for discoveries on the pathogenesis of neurological disorders including the genetic origins of Rett syndrome." | Baylor College of MedicineTexas Children's Hospital |
| 2021 |||||
| | Jean-Pierre Changeux (born 1936) | France | "for contributions to our understanding of neuroreceptors and especially the identification of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and its allosteric properties." | Collège de FranceInstitut Pasteur |
| | Toshio Hirano (born 1947) | Japan | "for discovery of interleukin-6, description of its physiological and pathological actions, that has contributed to drug development." | Osaka UniversityNational Institute of Radiological Sciences |
| | Tadamitsu Kishimoto (born 1939) | Japan | "for discovery of interleukin-6, description of its physiological and pathological actions, that has contributed to drug development." | Osaka University |
| | Karl Johnson (1929–2023) | United States | "for identification and isolation of the Hantaan virus (hantavirus), agent of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome." | University of New Mexico |
| | Ho Wang Lee (1928–2022) | South Korea | "for identification and isolation of the Hantaan virus (hantavirus), agent of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome." | Korea UniversityNational Academy of Sciences |
| 2022 |||||
| | Masato Hasegawa (born 1961) | Japan | "for the identification of TDP-43, a pathological signature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), and for other contributions to the study of neurodegenerative diseases." | Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science |
| | Virginia Man-Yee Lee (born 1945) | China United States | "for the identification of TDP-43, a pathological signature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), and for other contributions to the study of neurodegenerative diseases." | University of Pennsylvania |
| | Mary-Claire King (born 1946) | United States | "for demonstrating inherited susceptibility for breast and ovarian cancer and discovering the role played by mutations of the BRCA1 gene." | University of Washington |
| | Stuart Orkin (born 1946) | United States | "for foundational research on the genetic basis of blood diseases and for advancing gene therapy for sickle cell anemia and beta-thalassemia." | Harvard Medical SchoolHoward Hughes Medical Institute |
| 2023 |||||
| | Carl H. June (born 1953) | United States | "for breakthrough research advancing chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for the treatment of cancer." | University of Pennsylvania |
| | Steven A. Rosenberg (born 1940) | United States | "for breakthrough research advancing chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for the treatment of cancer." | National Cancer Institute |
| | Michel Sadelain (born 1960) | United States | "for breakthrough research advancing chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for the treatment of cancer." | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| | Rob Knight (born 1976) | New Zealand | "for computational and experimental research revealing the complex microbial ecosystems of the human body." | University of California San Diego |
| | Emmanuel Mignot (born 1959) | France | "for genetic and physiological studies of the sleep/wake cycle and the discovery of hypocretin/orexin as important regulators of sleep involved in the cause of narcolepsy." | Stanford University |
| | Clifford B. Saper (born 1952) | United States | "for genetic and physiological studies of the sleep/wake cycle and the discovery of hypocretin/orexin as important regulators of sleep involved in the cause of narcolepsy." | Harvard Medical School |
| | Masashi Yanagisawa (born 1960) | Japan United States | "for genetic and physiological studies of the sleep/wake cycle and the discovery of hypocretin/orexin as important regulators of sleep involved in the cause of narcolepsy." | University of Tsukuba |
| 2024 |||||
| | Helen Hobbs (born 1952) | United States | "for research on the genetics of lipid metabolism, which has led to new drugs to treat cardiovascular diseases." | Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| | Jonathan C. Cohen (born ?) | United States | "for research on the genetics of lipid metabolism, which has led to new drugs to treat cardiovascular diseases." | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| | Ann Graybiel (born 1942) | United States | "for physiological studies of the basal ganglia, central to motor control and behavior including learning." | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| | Okihide Hikosaka (born ?) | Japan | "for physiological studies of the basal ganglia, central to motor control and behavior including learning." | National Institutes of Health |
| | Wolfram Schultz (born ?) | Germany | "for physiological studies of the basal ganglia, central to motor control and behavior including learning." | University of Cambridge |
| | Davor Solter (born 1941) | Yugoslavia | "for the discovery of genomic imprinting, advancing our understanding of epigenetics and mammalian development." | Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics |
| | Azim Surani (born 1945) | Kenya United Kingdom | "for the discovery of genomic imprinting, advancing our understanding of epigenetics and mammalian development." | University of Cambridge |