Svante paabo biography definition

Swedish geneticist (born 1955)

Svante PääboForMemRSKmstkNO (Swedish:[ˈsvânːtɛ̂ˈpʰɛ̌ːbʊ̂];^[3] born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics.^[4] As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome.^[5][6] In 1997, he became founding director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.^[7][8][9] Since 1999, he has been an honorary professor at Leipzig University; he currently teaches molecular evolutionary biology at the university.^[10][11] He is also an adjunct professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.^[12]

In 2022, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution".^[13&#