‘Living best life, hiking off grid’: Nobel committee unable to reach medicine prize winner | World News - The Indian Express skip to contentAdvertisementFred Ramsdell was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine along with Mary Brunkow of Seattle and Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University in Japan for their discoveries on the functioning of the immune system.By: Express Web Desk October 7, 2025 08:49 AM IST First published on: Oct 7, 2025 at 08:48 AM IST ShareWhatsapptwitterFacebookNobel Prize 2025 Winners: Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. (Reuters)One of the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine, Fred Ramsdell, is “living his best life” on an “off the grid” hiking foray as the Nobel committee has been unable to reach him, a spokesperson from Sonoma Biotherapeutics, Ramsdell’s San Francisco-based lab told news agency AFP.Fred Ramsdell was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday along with Mary Brunkow of Seattle, Washington and Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University in Japan for their discoveries on the functioning of the immune system.AdvertisementBut Ramsdell’s digital detox and a shining example of work-life balance has made the Nobel committee unable to reach him and share the news. A friend of Ramsdell and a co-founder of the lab, Jeffrey Bluestone, said that the researcher deserved the credit for the award but he hasn’t been able to reach him.BREAKING NEWSThe 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.” pic.twitter.com/nhjxJSoZEr— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 6, 2025“I have been trying to get a hold of him myself. I think he may be backpacking in the backcountry in Idaho,” Bluestone said, as reported by AFP.The Nobel committee was also not able to reach out to Brunkow, another winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine for 2025, and interestingly, both the researchers are based out of the US West Coast which is about nine hours behind Nobel committee’s headquarters in Stockholm. However, the committee was able to make a contact with Brunkow.The secretary-general of the Nobel committee, Thomas Perlmann, at a press briefing while announcing the winners said, “I asked them to, if they have a chance, call me back.” The trio won the Nobel prize for identifying the immune system’s regulatory T-cells, which are also known as “security guards” of the human immune system.AdvertisementTop story1As China opens world’s tallest bridge, here are the top 10 tallest bridges in the world2Gaza Peace Plan Live Updates: Israel deports Greta Thunberg and 170 Gaza flotilla activists to Greece, Slovakia3‘Why you’re so f***ing negative, this is a win’: Trump tells Netanyahu on Gaza peace plan4US woman pleads ‘how much can I give you to stop?’ during NYC apartment rape, suspect arrested5‘We are shocked’: Another Indian-origin motel manager killed in US, kin in Surat recount his last visit to IndiaAdvertisementLoading Taboola...SubscribeSign InJournalism of CourageTop CategoriesLATEST STORIES‘Living best life, hiking off grid’: Nobel committee unable to reach medicine prize winnerTarn Taran Bypoll: As AAP falls back on tested turncoat formula, Akali factions may muddle waters35-year-old had high LDL cholesterol and heart stress after long hours on laptop: Which test saved her from a heart attack?UP man killed amid ‘drone chor’ hysteria: How cops are battling the rumoursEXCLUSIVE: A year after quitting as Delhi CM — and a court case later — Centre allots govt bungalow to KejriwalHow a ‘personal enmity’ led to accusation of black magic, social boycott of family in Gujarat village for six monthsBank Holiday Today: Are banks open or closed on Tuesday, October 7, for Valmiki Jayanti? Check city-wise listFor Palestinians of my generation, Amitabh Bachchan was a heroJ K Rowling-Emma Watson row reveals tension between lived truth and fiction’s sweepYogendra Yadav writes: Let’s audit Bihar SIR. It makes for sad readingOctober 7, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Pak Ambush in J&KJane Goodall’s legacy is one of deep conviction and unshakeable hopeYoung and influential: Over 5,700 first-time voters per seat in BiharMedicine Nobel laureates’ work is key to understanding immune systemDeaths in MP due to spurious cough syrups point to grave regulatory deficitsBihar election is a critical test of leadership, challenging old politics for a new future