Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

The Nobel committee has been unable to reach a winner of this year's prize for medicine, who is living his best life" on an off the grid" hiking foray, a spokesperson from his San Francisco-based lab, Sonoma Biotherapeutics, has said.

Fred Ramsdell shared Monday's prestigious prize with Mary Brunkow of Seattle, Washington and Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University in Japan for their discoveries related to the functioning of the immune system.