Secretary and Office

The Secretary-General for the Nobel Assembly and Nobel Committee is Professor Thomas Perlmann who has held the position since February 25, 2016. The Secretary-General is director of the Nobel Office and the Medical Nobel Institute, and the spokesman for theNobel Assembly, theNobel Committee, and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Secretary-General is elected from among the members of the Nobel Assembly.  The administrative staff of the Nobel Office includes Ann-Mari Dumanski and Pernilla Witte, who should be contacted for questions.(See under Contact)

Thomas Perlmann is a Professor of Molecular Developmental Biology at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at the Karolinska Institutet since 2001. He is a member of the Nobel Assembly since 2006, adjunct member of the Nobel Committee 2008-2011 and member of the Nobel Committee 2012-2016. He was the committee chair in 2016 before being named Secretary-General in February 2016. He is a member of the Medical Class of the Royal Swedish Academy since 2008.

Ann-Mari Dumanski

Pernilla Witte