 I'm very happy that the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pabo for his foundational work on ancient genetics and sequencing of ancient humans. I work in the department of Svante until last year and I was studying there the evolution of neurons. The work of Svante Pabo is of outstanding importance because we now can reconstruct thanks to his work the past human history by looking at the genomes of ancient humans. What we know now thanks to the work of Svante is that we were not homo sapiens, has not been the only species of humans that was populating the globe, they were populating planet Earth, but we were living together with other species of humans such as Niandeto and Denizovan. The work of Svante also allowed to reconstruct the history of human migration, the human migration out of Africa and allow us to understand how different types of human species did not only meet but also merge somehow during the more recent human history. Another aspect that I personally find very fascinating, not only me but also my fellow colleagues find very fascinating is that by comparing the genome of modern humans or us with ancient genomes we can try to see and we can see which are the differences and we can in terms of genetics and we can try now to understand using modern day technologies in biology, we can really try to understand what these type of changes are good for and which is the differences these changes made for humankind. The work of Svante has a great impact I think both on humanities and on biology and medicine on humanities because it's really reconstructing our history of humans as a species where we are coming from the way in which we live in the past and when it comes to medicine and biology I think really the comparison between our genomes and the genomes of ancient humans at least we hope will allow us to better understand human diseases.