A scientist who was offline ‘lives their best life’ stunned by the Webel award
It is a cute city. I would love to come back and spend more time, but no, it was just, “Let’s just eat”, because I have to go back – I have a lot to do.
Did you tell someone in the pub that you won the Nobel Reward?
I didn’t tell anyone, Haha. I didn’t think I should do it.
You said not to follow Nobel Prize. How shocking was it to be that you won? I guess you are aware of how big a breakthrough is your discovery, but are you thinking, well, a lot of great science happens, well?
I’m not that naive. The main reason that never happens that it will happen about eight years ago, who has been another faculty, and then another very good friend at the Sloan Institute, which is from the Royal Swedish Academy. It is a family foundation in Sweden.
We thought, I think 2017. years and it was great time. You know, we’re talking, we met the crown. It was amazing. And so I thought, okay, it’s a confession that this will be especially scientific discovery to get, which was awesome. So I’m like that, that’s better than I could ever hope. People would talk about Nobel, and I would be like “I don’t think so.” And after that, I was like, “it will never happen, not even think about it.” So I was really shocked when I heard about it.
Why do you think you got the Nobel Prize for this job now? Do you think that because of the increased interest in immunology because of the bone? Or is it because those findings have now made hundreds of new medical trials?