BioTechMed-Graz Nobel Lecture 2025 with Chemistry Nobel Laureate Frances H. Arnold

On December 1, 2025, BioTechMed-Graz hosted its annual Nobel Lecture, which has become a well-established highlight of the academic year. This time, Chemistry Nobel Laureate Frances H. Arnold (California Institute of Technology) delivered a talk titled “Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life” , in which she discussed her groundbreaking research on the directed evolution of enzymes - work that has profoundly transformed our understanding of biological and chemical processes.

The lecture attracted around 700 members of the BioTechMed-Graz community, and the audience was visibly impressed by Arnold’s inspiring presentation. A subsequent get-together offered attendees the opportunity to exchange ideas and network.

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Past Nobel Lectures

Nobel Laureate Prof. Frances Arnold at the Nobel Lecture 2025 at the Medical University of Graz.

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Frances Arnold “for the directed evolution of enzymes.”

Nobel Laureate Prof. Ferenc Krausz at the Nobel Lecture 2024 at Graz University of Technology.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"

Nobel Laureate Prof. Edvard Moser at the Nobel Lecture 2023 at the University of Graz.

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was shared, with one half going jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser and the other half to John O'Keefe "for their discoveries of cells that form a localization system in the brain".

Nobel Laureate Prof. Bruce Beutler at the Nobel Lecture 2022 at the Medical University of Graz.

Prof. Bruce A. Beutler is an immunologist and geneticist and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2011 for his discoveries on the activation of innate immunity.

Nobel Laureate Prof. Stefan Hell at the Nobel Lecture 2019 at Graz University of Technology.

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Stefan W. Hell, Eric Betzig and William E. Moerner "for the development of high-resolution fluorescence microscopy".

Nobel Laureate Prof. Harald zur Hausen at the Nobel Lecture 2018 at the University of Graz.

The internationally recognized researcher has contributed to the development of a vaccine against the most common type of cancer in women, cervical cancer. In 2008, the German scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.