2018 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research

Svante Pääbo (Stockholm, 20th April 1955) studied History of Science, Egyptology, Russian and Medicine at the University of Uppsala and was a researcher at the Department of Cell Biology, where he earned his PhD in 1986. He undertook postdoctoral stays at the Institute of Cellular Biology II at the University of Zurich, the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London and the University of California at Berkeley.