Helena Backlund Wasling presents this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine in SVT’s “En kväll för Nobel” (‘An evening for Nobel’)

During SVT’s traditional broadcast from the awarding of the Nobel Prize, Helena Backlund Wasling will present this year’s medicine prize. The prize is awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, who are praised for their discoveries about how the nervous system sends signals for temperature, touch and pressure. Helena Backlund Wasling is a researcher in neuroscience, focusing on the human brain and mechanisms for both touch and social interactions. SVT’s program “En kväll för Nobel” is broadcast on Friday December 10, at 21:00.