(6 Oct 2014) One of the winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in medicine said on Monday that the award was an "inspiration" for science and that he hoped his research could help in the future treatment of Alzheimer's.
Norwegian scientist Edvard Moser and his wife May-Britt shared the prize with US-British scientist John O'Keefe for discovering the "inner GPS" that helps the brain navigate the world.
Moser told media in Munich on Monday that it was the husband and wife team's unwavering dedication to rigid scientific principles that won them the award.
"I think (this is) an inspiration for science in general. It shows that it's possible to build up, from scratch, an environment - if you provide the right type of funding and the right mechanisms," he said.
"So this is maybe a reward for something that we have done over the course of 15 years... It shows that it's possible to do good science if you do it in the right way."
The Nobel Assembly said earlier on Monday that the scientists' findings could help increase understanding of the mechanisms behind diseases like Alzheimer's.
All three Nobel laureates won Columbia University's Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize last year for their discoveries.

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