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STOCKHOLM — <\/span>This year’s Nobel Prizes<\/a> will kick off on Monday with the awarding of the medicine prize at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.<\/p>\n Last year, three scientists<\/a> won the Nobel Prize in medicine<\/a> for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. The work by Mary E. Brunkow<\/a>, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi uncovered a key pathway the body uses to keep the immune system in check, called peripheral immune tolerance. Experts called the findings critical to understanding autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.<\/p>\n Monday’s medicine prize is followed by the physics prize on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. <\/p>\n After Friday\u2019s peace prize<\/a> is awarded, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced on Oct. 12.<\/p>\n The prize money this year is 12 million Swedish kronor (about $1.2 million), whether for an individual, small group of laureates or organization.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Dazio reported from Berlin.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n AP Nobel Prizes: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nobel-prizes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n