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won Nobel Prizes in physiology, medicine, and chemistry
The Nobel Prize does not have separate prizes in "physiology" and "medicine." The official category is a single combined prize: the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Full reasoning
This wording splits one Nobel category into two. According to the official Nobel Prize FAQ, the Nobel Prize categories are physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. The Nobel Prize’s medicine page likewise states that the official award is “The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.”
So while JCC-associated scientists have indeed won Nobel Prizes, the article’s phrase “in physiology, medicine, and chemistry” is inaccurate because physiology and medicine are not separate Nobel Prize categories.
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- FAQ - Frequently asked questions - NobelPrize.org
What are the Nobel Prize categories? The Nobel Prize categories are physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace - these were laid out in the will of Alfred Nobel.
- NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ... The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
awards the "Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship" for research in the medical and related sciences bearing on cancer
JCC’s fellowship is no longer limited to cancer-focused research. The fund says its mission has broadened to support research on human disease more generally.
Full reasoning
This description is too narrow. On its official site, the Jane Coffin Childs Fund says that although it was founded to support cancer research, its current mission has broadened to support fundamental scientific research on human disease more generally.
The fund’s overview states that its mission now supports research advancing the causes, treatments, and cures for human disease, and that fellows conduct basic cancer and human disease related research. Its 2026 fellows announcement likewise says awardees are doing research on diseases including ALS, autoimmunity, cancer, and sepsis.
So the fellowship is not accurately described today as being only for research "bearing on cancer."
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- About the Fund - Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund
Inspired by the founding purpose to support research into the causes and treatment of cancer, the Fund's mission has broadened to support fundamental scientific research that advances understanding of the causes, treatments, and cures for human disease. Over 1,800 Jane Coffin Childs Fellows and grantees have been awarded to conduct basic cancer and human disease related research...
- The Jane Coffin Childs Fund for Medical Research Names its 2026 Fellows - Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund
The JCC Fund advances pioneering science by backing the brilliant postdoctoral fellows conducting fundamental research on cancer and human disease. Awardees are conducting research that will inform our understanding of diseases such as ALS, autoimmunity, cancer and sepsis.