Clinicians no longer in favour at the Nobel Institute

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Some 70 years ago, clinicians were picking up almost 80 per cent of Nobel prizes in physiology and medicine - but most of the prizes now go to their colleagues in the lab

31 August 2011

PITY the clinicians: their work has fallen out of favour at the Nobel Institute, which is awarding them fewer Nobel prizes in physiology or medicine.

at Imperial College London used the to study prizewinners over the last 100 years. In the first 30 years, 79 per cent of the prizes were awarded to clinicians. The figure has dropped to 26 per cent in the last 30 years (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, ).

鈥淭oday people tend to think that proper science is done at the molecular level in a lab,鈥� says Ashrafian, which might explain the decline.

, Harvard Medical School鈥檚 executive dean for research, agrees that clinical science is viewed pejoratively. 鈥淚t is considered the handmaiden of the basic biological sciences.鈥�

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